Chapter 278
Li Rui is not a god. He does not have the ability to fly beyond the three realms and stand in the clouds to overlook all living beings. Naturally, he cannot see the panoramic view of a great escape sweeping through northern China, nor can he see the numerous corpses on the way. However, just
The corpses that could be seen everywhere on the Wanluo Ancient Road were enough for him to realize that this great escape was not what the Zhuan family called the beast, but a journey to spread civilization.
What promotes the great integration of the north, south, east and west, and what brings advanced production technology and a large population to the places that need them most, are all nonsense to people of this era. They just want to escape. One thousand
Of course, historical experts many years later can give this great escape a lot of great significance and describe it as an unprecedented long march for the Han nation and a magnificent epic. But for people of this era, this is
The thorny roads paved with corpses. Behind every person who successfully reaches the destination is the blood and tears of countless relatives and friends. It is a sad and desolate elegy composed with the unyielding roars and painful wailings of countless undead souls.
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Fuck ethnic integration!
Sima Quan was so frightened by the tragic scene of dead bodies everywhere that he turned pale and could not speak. He kept shrinking to Bei Gongjing. Bei Gongjing comforted him a few words, but his face was not very good-looking.
The army continued to move forward and began to encounter groups of refugees. They all escaped from Luoyang. They were all skinny and skinny, and they were staggering around in groups supporting the elderly and the young. With green eyes, they ate everything they could eat.
They stuffed them into their stomachs, including tree bark, leaves, grass roots, and insects. Basically, there would be no living things in the place they swept. Even so, many people still starved to death.
They have been hungry for a long time and are already malnourished. Although they can fill their stomachs with bark and grass roots after escaping to the mountains, their intestines and stomachs cannot digest these rough things. Not only do they fail to obtain the calories they need,
, On the contrary, it also caused indigestion and even internal bleeding, which hurt themselves to death. These refugees gritted their teeth and forced themselves to move forward. Every time they walked, they would stop and sit on the side of the road, panting, and their sallow faces were covered with sweat.
Not a trace of blood can be seen. There are not many traces of life on them. Only when they breathe and blink, you will find that they are alive.
The human trade has also started vigorously in such barren mountains and wild mountains. Many refugees wash their children's faces, insert a grass bone into their heads, kneel on the roadside and beg passers-by to buy it without any money.
Just give them a few buckets of corn. When passing by Wubao, they even ran to the foot of Wubao with their children in groups, begging the owner of Wubao for some food to buy their children. The parents’ pleading and the children’s
The cries came and went one after another, which was unbearable to hear.
"Master Jun, take pity on us, buy them, just give them a bucket of rice..." A man in his thirties knelt on the side of the road, numbly repeating this sentence to everyone passing by.
Kneeling next to him were two little girls less than ten years old, and an old woman with gray hair lay behind him, dead.
The little girl didn't speak, she just stared blankly at everyone. Even if a heavily armed soldier walked past, their faces were numb, neither crying nor fussing, and their eyes were empty, making people dare not look at them.
Bei Gongjing looked at the family, with a trace of unbearable expression on his face, and said to Li Rui: "Li Rui, give them some of my rations, otherwise this whole family will die here."
Li Rui sighed: "There are so many people who are about to starve to death, how many can you save with this little ration?"
Bei Gongjing said: "At least give this family something to eat."
Li Rui had no choice but to jump off his horse and come to the family.
The man seemed to have seen him, but also seemed not to see him. He just repeated mechanically: "Have mercy on us, buy her house and give her a bucket of rice..."
Li Rui took out the bag containing dry food and said, "Stretch out your hand."
It took the man a while to react and stretched out his hands.
Li Rui opened the bag and poured it into his palm.
The moment the first grain of fried corn was poured out, the man's dull eyes suddenly burst into greedy light. He took action like lightning, snatched the bag of dry food, and jumped into the woods and disappeared. He disappeared.
His movements were so fast that Li Rui felt his eyes blurred. He couldn't even find a shadow of such a big man. He was left standing there stupidly, maintaining the posture of dumping fried corn.
If a gust of wind blows by, circles around him a few times, and then blows a withered yellow leaf, it will be even more suitable for the occasion.
Xu Hun was furious: "You are so brave, you even dare to rob our general's things!" He jumped off the horse and started to chase. Li Wo even put his hand behind his back, picked up a javelin and was about to throw it.
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Li Ruike finally came to his senses and said with an aggrieved look: "Forget it, there are only a few meters in the bag. Let him snatch it away. There is no need to risk a life for this little thing."
Xu Hun was dissatisfied: "This is not just about how many things were robbed! General, you are kind-hearted and feel pity for their family's situation. You want to help him, but he doesn't recognize your good heart and steals all your rations. This kind of
People deserve to die!"
Li Rui said: "He doesn't deserve to die, this world deserves to die." He pursed his lips and didn't know when the two people had reacted. They were frantically picking up the corn that fell on the ground, grabbing it together with the grass, blades and soil.
The little girl who stuffed it into her mouth said: "Stop picking it up. Go find your father quickly. It will be better if you get separated from him."
The two little ones turned a deaf ear to his words and just grabbed food from the ground and stuffed it into their mouths.
Li Rui had no choice but to look around and found that the man who had the audacity to steal his dry food was hiding not far away and staring at this place. It seemed that the guy was also worried about his daughters, for fear that he would be angry with them. Since he
Dad was there too, so he didn't worry about it. He just said to them: "Keep going forward when you are full. Don't stop. After walking forward for another day, you will arrive at Yaoshan Canyon. There are people giving porridge and helping people.
You can survive once you get there." After saying that, he remounted his horse and continued on the road with the depression of being tricked.
The two little ones were still picking up the bits of fried corn on the ground without raising their heads, as if there was nothing in the world that they cared about except food.
This incident brought happiness to Bei Gongjing. She kept smiling: "The mighty General actually allowed a commoner to rob him. Isn't this going to make people laugh when word spreads about it?"
Li Rui became more and more depressed: "You still have the nerve to laugh? If you hadn't asked me to help this family, would I have been robbed?"
Bei Gongjing smiled and said, "Yes, yes, it's all my fault, okay? As compensation, I'll give you half of my dry food."
Li Rui rolled his eyes: "Come on, your dry food is not enough for me to stuff between my teeth."
Bei Gongjing had no choice but to say, "Then tell me what to do."
Li Rui said: "While we are camping, I will go hunting to see if I can catch a wild cock or a pheasant or something. Then you will chew the dry fried corn, and I will eat the fragrant barbecue and make you cry!"
It was a beautiful thought, but unfortunately he was unlucky. When he camped that night, he went hunting seriously. From sunset on the west mountain to the moon on the branches, he didn't even find the prey, not to mention the prey.
.It is not difficult to understand when you think about it. There are so many refugees who fled to Nanyang along the Tianjing Wanluo Ancient Road. Each of these refugees is hungry and green-eyed. They even dare to eat people. What kind of wild animals dare to come out and move around?
Aren't you afraid of being taken advantage of?
Fortunately, Xu Hun still gained something.
Good news: This idiot found a few beef leg bones from somewhere.
Bad news: Those beef leg bones were shaved so clean that making soup for Tang Monk to drink would not be considered a breach of the precepts.
Li Rui, whose stomach was already growling with hunger, looked over and over the beef leg bone. After making sure that he was not dazzled, he looked at Xu Hun and asked from his soul: "Where's the meat? Why is it cleaner than a dog licking it?"
No minced meat at all?”
Xu Hun said: "This cow died not far from the roadside. It has been raided by so many refugees. Do you still want to have minced meat? It would be good if there are still a few intact bones."
Li Rui yelled: "There is no minced meat at all, what do you want me to eat? You don't want me to chew it directly, right? I am a dog, but I am not a dog, so I can't chew it at all, okay?"
Xu Hun scratched his head: "Maybe you can use it to make some bone soup?"
Li Rui said: "It's bone soup. There's no meat foam at all. What's cooked is just a pot of shabu-shabu water with the taste of bones!"
However, as a foodie who has tasted many weird delicacies, Li Rui finally thought of a way. He asked someone to find a saw, sawed open the beef leg bones with a crunch, and then put them on the fire.
Roast it. After the bone marrow inside is roasted until sizzling with oil, scoop out the bone marrow, dip it in salted garlic paste and soy sauce, wrap it in young wild vegetable leaves and put it in your mouth. Hmm, it tastes really good.
The soldiers also tasted a little bit, and they all said it tasted surprisingly good, and they wanted to eat it more.
So when Li Rui woke up the next morning, he saw these guys chattering around a pile of dirty beef bones, discussing which part of the bone had the most marrow and the best taste...
The point is that this pile of bones is exuding a disgusting musty smell, and it almost smoked out what Li Rui ate yesterday.
Xu Hun grinned and showed off to him: "General, we found another pair of beef bones! Let's continue roasting beef marrow and eat it, okay?"
Li Rui rolled his eyes and asked, "Do you really like roasted beef marrow so much?"
The fool nodded happily: "Beef bone marrow, delicious! I want to eat it again!"
Chapter completed!