Songlin Town.

In a grain transport team of more than 100 people, some people were driving mule carriages, some were pushing chariots, and some were carrying sacks on their backs. They were walking on the official road slowly and tiredly.

Li Datou, who had short jackets and trousers, bent down and carried a sack weighing more than 100 kilograms. He walked every step very hard because the soles of the shoes had been worn out and his feet were stepping on the dirt road, leaving a few scarlet blood.

The sweat on his forehead was unable to wipe it, dripping down his cheeks, and his body was much thinner and weak. Li Datou, who had not had a full meal for a long time, finally couldn't hold on, and his eyes turned dark and he fell heavily to the ground.

The accompanying officer walked over cursingly, and the whip blew on Li Datou for a while, leaving blood marks. Seeing that the other party opened his eyes weakly, he looked like he was venting more and inhaling less. Only then did he believe that he was not lazy.

"Two people come and carry them to the side of the road. What are you looking at? Who allowed you to stop? You won't hurry up and hurry up. If you miss the time, I want you to look good!"

The head official received the report from the officer, came over and glanced at him, gave a few casual instructions, and then turned around and left.

The person who helped Li Datou to rest on the roadside was a grain shop who was familiar with him. Seeing this, he immediately begged:

"Sir, Li Datou is so hungry. Please give him the food for today. Sir. Send him back. Otherwise, he will starve to death here!"

The head official snorted coldly, "The food he should have sent to the county town has not been delivered, but he still wants food? It's a fool!"

"Sir! This is a life. Please be kind. Even if you don't want to pity Li Datou, you still have pity his family. If you don't have food, how can they live? You can't do this!" The grain shop mate kowtowed repeatedly.

"Bastard!" The official officer was furious, and a whip in his hand rang and whipped the grain shop clerk. "Dare you teach me how to do things? I'm tired of working! I pity him, who pity me? If you say more, your food will be borne by you!

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The grain shop clerk didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only get up and return to the team.

He and Li Datou have a relationship, but they are not that deep. They have done everything they should say and do. It is impossible for them to fight for Li Datou.

The other civilians in the team looked at Li Datou's eyes from pity to numbness, and finally lowered their heads and continued on the road. Only when the officials could not see themselves, they occasionally showed bone-broken hatred.

Li Datou, who was listless, lay in the haystack, staring at the blue sky with his eyes empty, feeling the sky was spinning, the white clouds seemed to be far away, the white clouds seemed to be far away, the mind was muddy, and the soul seemed to be leaving the body.

He knew he was about to die.

He was very scared, so scared that his eyes were blurred and his whole body was trembling.

He was very angry again, his facial features were distorted and his eyes were red.

He was still very sad, with a sad face full of grief, like an abandoned child.

Five years of the National War, he was trapped in a state of chaos under the rule of foreign races. The barbaric grassland warriors with swords passed by the market day by day. In such difficult and dangerous years, he survived safely. Now that the National War is over, he thought his days will only increase.

I got better and better, but I never thought that I would starve to death without even a year, and the corpse was everywhere.

When the Beihu army retreated, it robbed everywhere, and almost all the food and goods from the homes of the rich and the common people were plundered - unless it was a secret warehouse and a secret room at home.

The iron shops, grain shops, cloth shops and restaurants in Songlin Town were also unavoidable.

Originally, there were no soldiers from Northern Hu in Songlin Town, but after the Yunzhou army entered Hebei, the front of the army was forced to stay in front of Bozhou City, which gave the opportunity to flee the Northern Hu army to burn, kill and loot everywhere.

There was no iron left in the blacksmith shop. In addition, the boss was chopped off by the Beihu soldiers in order to protect his wealth. Before the wealth was kept, the blacksmith shop naturally disappeared, and Li Datou became a real unemployed refugee.

During these days, his family lived entirely with government relief.

The country farmers still have fields, and if they have the seeds of food sown in spring, they will not lose their work. But like Li Datou and grain shops who live on cities and cities, all industries in the city will be in decline, and there will be no way out to heaven and no way to the ground.

The people had no food, and the court transferred life-saving food from Huainan, and everything was in trouble. The court also took corresponding measures. Li Datou was not hungry to look like he was skinny and bone-like.

But the food sent from the official's hand is not enough to eat, and porridge is still a meal a day, but it's just a life.

For ordinary people, this can survive, but recently the Longyou War has been fighting for three months but has not seen the ending momentum. In order to supply military rations, the court had to shrink the food to help the people.

People like Li Datou eat even less.

Now, a chicken has been sold for one tael of silver!

Those poor families who cannot survive sell their children to wealthy families as maids and servants, are not worth so much money - they are almost for free.

Children can enter a wealthy family and can at least have a bite of food so that they will not starve to death with them!

Not only did Li Datou eat less, but he was also recruited by the government to transport some of the grain transferred to Songlin Town to the county and town. He was transferred to the military camp as a reserve of military rations. Only when the next batch of grain in Huainan came will he make up for it.

Vacancies.

The military is ahead of the people, and war is the most important thing in everything, which is related to the stability of the dynasty. There is nothing to say about this book.

But it was only these days that Li Datou had some contact with the official officers that gradually realized that the reason why they had less food was not because the court did not know how much they had to eat for a meal alone, nor because the court really had no food.

But these officials and servants ate too much!

Those who have a little real power make a fortune, and use grain to exchange for gold, silver and jewelry in the secret room of the high-ranking households, and they all make a fortune; even the lower-level servants have taken the opportunity to accumulate considerable wealth!

The landlords and rich people are not fools. Of course, they knew that they had suffered a great loss and became suckers. In order to make up for the losses, they used the food they had earned to buy a large amount of slaves, tenants and even land.

——There is really no question of buying, it’s all waves, and countless people are rushing to come over.

As for the land, the price is naturally lower than before the National War, because some farmers cannot pass the current threshold for various reasons - if there is no threshold, they will buy it - the official account will create a threshold for them!

With slaves, tenants, and land, the losses of these landlords and rich people are only temporary. As long as the Taiping Prefectures and counties in the world are restored, they will be able to make up for the losses and make more money in less than a few years.

Li Datou has seen the affairs of powerful officials and landlords and wealthy families clearly, but this has not helped him much. Now he is about to leave this world.

Where can Li Datou, who has just recovered from hunger, fatigue, whipping, and his body has just recovered from torture?

Li Datou, who was crying and blurred with his eyes, seemed to see a familiar figure in his confused vision, a face that once made him unforgettable.

"Zuocheer..."

Li Datou choked and lost his voice.

He knew it was an illusion. Since Zuo Cheer killed through the prison like a god that day, he had never seen him again.

He was able to survive from death and save his life by chance, which was entirely due to the other party's chivalrous behavior.

At this moment, Li Datou hoped that Zuo Cheer could appear again and save him again!

Before the national war broke out, Zuo Cheer was the biggest hero in Songlin Town. He hated evil with justice and helped countless poor people and was deeply loved by the people. Although he "relatively defected" to Beihu during the national war, he was the only one who was the one who was a man of the people.

Spoiled, but the sudden attack in the end also made people realize his endurance of humiliation.

In the days after the National War, people in Songlin Town never saw Zuo Cheer again, but Zuo Cheer's reputation reached an unprecedented level. Even Li Datou himself could not rise to the jealousy of filth.

I don’t say that the other party is a swan from the heart, but I still boast about the other party’s chivalrousness in front of others.

But Li Datou also understood that with Zuo Cheer's performance at that time, the other party must have accepted the reward of the court as a meritorious person. It may be said that it is an official with title and real power, so how could he go back to Songlin Town again.

place?

Since the other party will not come back, Li Datou will have no way to live or have a chance to speak of.

Li Datou was desperate.

Suddenly, he felt that there was a sticky entrance, almost instinctive, so he quickly swallowed.

When he realized that the rice in his mouth was porridge. He had returned to the world from the brink of death. He could barely see the things in front of him and had a little strength in his body.

He knows the person in front of him.

More than just understanding.

"Zuo, Zuo Cheer... Zuo Daxia?!"

Li Datou almost thought he was dreaming.

He actually saw Zuo Cheer again!

The other party was wearing a blue robe, carrying a long sword, and was tall and straight, like a sword peak, facing him sideways, looking at the official Taoist.

There were two swordsmen in green dressed up around the other party, and one of them was feeding him.

In the wilderness, the other party actually had porridge and rice to feed him? Last time he saw porridge and rice, it was an hour ago. When the team was resting at noon, the officials cooked thick porridge, and they had not finished eating it, and the rest were placed.

On the mule cart.

Unfortunately, at that time, Li Datou and other civilians had not eaten the rice. Their meal was only the evening meal, so they had to wait to carry the food to the county and town.

At this moment, he saw from the corner of his eyes that the food shop squatted aside, looking at him with concern.

Before he could think about why the grain shop mate was back, Li Datou saw Zuo Cheer look back at him, his expression did not change at all, and said lightly: "It's good to be able to survive."

This ordinary sentence made Li Datou burst into tears.

Zuo Cheer saved him again, at the most dangerous and difficult time!

The other party is not his parents who are better than his reborn parents, nor is his god who is better than his living god!

Li Datou burst into tears and struggled to get up. His voice was choked and thanked him: "Thank you for your rescue, great kindness, Li was unforgettable, and he was worried about sending him later. Even if it was a sea of ​​swords and fire, Li...

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The conversation ends here and it ends abruptly.

Li Datou stood there, like a statue, with only a shock and shock left on his face.

He saw the scene on the official road.

It was a scene of killing.

The officials who whipped him, scolded him, ignored his life and death, and were domineering to him were attacked by many angry men and fled like birds and beasts!

Leading this group of civilians were several swordsmen in green dress dressed like Zuo Cheer!

At this moment, there were already several corpses of officials on the road, looking miserable.

The other civilians who did not participate in the battle also unloaded their sacks and stood on the road and watched.

——It turns out that the rice porridge that was in the entrance was taken by those officials, and the grain shop staff brought it to him.

No matter how dull Li Datou was and far away from the world, the scene in front of him made him think of the words that had spread all over the country before the National War, making countless people terrified or excited when they heard it:

The man in green will get rid of evil swords, and I will show you the truth in the world!

He turned around suddenly, looked up at Zuo Cheer, his eyes full of awe and horror.
Chapter completed!