Xiangyang, Huguang, an important north-south transportation town in the heart of China, became a prosperous place during the Taiping Period. Also because of the transportation artery, after Mianchi crossed south, the area around Xiangyang became a must-pass for rogue bandits. A few years later
The prosperity evaporated.
Outside a broken wall in Sanlipu in the east of the city, Wang Dashan was shaking a piece of wall brick.
Master Liu's unit where he was located was at the end of Xiying. There were too many people fleeing on the road. The elder asked Master Liu to follow behind and be responsible for catching the escaped servants. Wang Dashan and the others walked at the end of Xiying. This was also
Let them loot as little as possible.
Today is the first day of the first lunar month. Xiangyang is much colder than Anqing. Snowflakes are flying everywhere. There are dense crowds inside and outside the town. Due to lack of materials, even shacks are very rare. Most people don’t have the physical strength to dig holes and build shacks. I came early.
They occupied the dilapidated house, which could barely block the wind, and could burn a fire to keep warm, so they might be able to save their lives.
Wang Dashan failed to get inside the house, but fortunately he was able to get a position against the wall outside the house, which at least blocked the wind. There was also a hole on the ground with relatively fresh soil. It was probably dug by someone who passed by in front of him, and he lay in it.
It can be warmer. There are three families squatting outside this section of the wall. One of them has not occupied the hole and is still digging hard.
Wang Dashan didn't go to help, so he found the brick by the wall, and with great difficulty he lifted it and placed it next to a hole in the ground, just enough to set up the pot. He didn't have a winter coat on him, and was wearing a few tattered miscellaneous clothes.
A long gown was fully patched, the hem had been torn in half, and the size was very wide. Wearing it on the thin Wang Dashan, it was like wearing a cloth bag.
He lost some weight, his cheeks were deeply sunken, and almost only the bones were left on his fingers. After struggling to put the pot in place, Wang Dashan turned his left hand over. There was a piece of dry skin. Wang Dashan shook his right hand to remove it.
Suddenly, the piece of skin fell off like tree bark, revealing dark red muscles, and the white bones under the muscles were clearly visible.
"Hang bang..." Wang Dashan cried twice in a low voice, and looked up again. The surroundings were very noisy, and his wife was lying behind without paying attention. Then he turned back, put his left hand in his arms, and leaned back and forth.
I leaned down a few times, tears streaming down my face, but I didn't dare to cry.
He followed Xiying all the way. He originally heard that he was going to capture Yangzhou. He met Anqing soldiers in Jiangpu. Mr. Zhang took everyone to Henan. He met officers and soldiers in Nanyang. Xiying was defeated again. Wang Dashan did not go to the battlefield.
After the defeat, there was great confusion. Lords from various families abandoned a lot of money on the road, but the officers and soldiers did not pursue them.
Wang Dashan has experienced defeat and escape two or three times. He already has relatively rich experience. He did not get separated from Mr. Xiaowazi, but he threw away a lot of rice beans. After Nanyang was defeated, the brigade went from Nanyang to Macheng, and then from Macheng.
When we arrived at Xiangyang, we were in ruins along the way. This was the area hardest hit by the invaders, and the people who were still alive all had experience. If there was any disturbance, they would flee to the city, or seek refuge in the countryside far away from the official roads.kΑnshú五ξà
It was almost impossible to grab anything on the way. There was an extreme shortage of food. The slaves on the roadside were frozen to death. Only less than 10,000 of the more than 20,000 people the lord had brought were left. The slaves were starving and couldnibalistic.
It's not uncommon, but he has never eaten it. The only thing that makes him happy is that his wife is still alive and the child in his belly is also alive.
Wang Dashan gave almost all the food he could find to the woman, but the woman was only alive. He stopped crying and looked back at his wife. The woman was lying in the pit, her headscarf was missing, and her hair was messy.
On her face, her hair had fallen out a lot and her scalp had been exposed. Her face was bloodless. Only her belly was slightly bulging on her dry body. She did not look like she was pregnant with a child at all.
After coming out of Macheng, the woman was on the verge of death every day, but every time Wang Dashan thought she was going to die, she survived again.
"Head of the house, food, food."
"It's cooking." Wang Dashan responded, took out a shriveled grain bag from his arms, squeezed it a few times and stayed there for a moment, then carefully pointed it at the mouth of the pot and turned it upside down, and a few grains of rice fell into the pot.
He shook it vigorously a few times, and two more broken pieces fell in, and then there was no movement no matter how hard he shook it.
His face was full of disappointment. After waiting for a long time, he said to the woman, "The little boy has gone out. There will definitely be something to eat when he comes back."
The woman's voice said weakly, "Eat."
"I'll go find it right away."
Wang Dashan stood up with difficulty. His head suddenly felt dizzy. He quickly put his hands on the earth wall and did not even dare to open his eyes. After a while, he felt a little better. He raised his head and looked around. There were densely packed objects in his sight.
heads, some wielding hoes, but where can they find food? Read a book
Dragging his heavy legs and feet, Wang Dashan took a few aimless steps outside. The woman stopped him, "My clothes are torn. I'll mend them for you."
Wang Dashan sighed and took off his robe with difficulty. The woman couldn't get up after holding on for a while. Wang Dashan quickly put the clothes under her head and said, "Slowly replenish your strength after eating."
The woman gasped feebly, as a simple action like that just now exhausted her energy.
There was a sudden burst of cheers from the front, and someone shouted, "I dug one, I dug one!"
The crowd ran to a place. Wang Dashan quickly stood up and ran for a few steps. Then he looked back at the woman's position. When he saw no one was approaching, he continued running forward. When he got close, he smelled a fishy smell.
The crowd kept shouting and cursing, pushing each other back and forth. Wang Dashan tried to rush in twice, but was knocked aside. Finally someone ran out of the crowd, holding a piece of meat in his hand. When he ran past him, a fishy smell filled his nostrils. Wang Dashan
After seeing the appearance of the meat clearly, he suddenly squatted down and vomited. Nothing came out of his abdomen, only the pungent acid liquid, which made his eyes full of tears.
From time to time, fishy liquid fell on Wang Dashan's head. He couldn't stand up, turned his head while vomiting, and crawled in the direction of the ground. From time to time, people ran past him shouting crazily, and even stepped on his head.
On the back of the hand.
After climbing for a while, Wang Dashan stood up. He stumbled to the broken wall. Someone was cooking food nearby. There was smoke all around. When he got closer, he saw the woman still lying in the pit. He felt relieved and fell down again.
On the ground, I didn't have the strength to stand up again.
There were people walking around and making noises, but no one paid attention to him. Wang Dashan was lying on the ground, his whole body was cold, but he felt very comfortable, so comfortable that he almost fell asleep.
Someone was playing with his feet, but he didn't want to move, enjoying the senseless comfort.
There was a voice next to him, "It seems to be dead, drag it away."
Wang Dashan suddenly opened his eyes. He jumped up suddenly, waving his hands in a random manner, surrounded by smoke. The two figures screamed and ran away. When Wang Dashan saw that the woman was still there, he stopped panting and gasped.
After a moment, I found that the iron pot on the ground was missing.
This iron pot was his most valuable possession and a tool he couldn't live without. Wang Dashan screamed and rushed out of the smoke. He looked around. There were people walking around everywhere, and he couldn't see the shadow of the iron pot anywhere.
Wang Dashan's face turned pale. He stood there for a while and then hurried back to the pit. The woman opened her eyes slightly and stretched out her hand after seeing him. Wang Dashan was speechless and just held the woman's hand.
"Master... I don't want to eat. Let's go back to the Moyan Shop."
"Go back, go back." Wang Dashan stroked the woman's sparse hair with his hand, "You have to eat something before leaving."
The woman looked down at her belly and said, "Poor this baby, he hasn't had enough to eat yet."
Wang Dashan bit his lip and said, "Wait a minute."
He let go of the woman's hand and came to another family next to the broken wall. This family was composed of two brothers named Xu. They were originally from Hezhou. The elder brother was Xu Zhu, who had a wife and a pair of children. The younger brother was Xu Liang who was not yet married.
, the two brothers were caught together by Xiao Wazi. The elder brother was stronger. He used to drive the donkey cart for Xiao Wazi. When the donkey cart was lost in Nanyang, he followed Xiao Wazi out to plunder. His life was better than Wang Dashan's, and he still had more money in his hands.
There is food in stock.
Xu Zhu also went out with the little boy today. Xu Liang found some hay and rags as fuel from somewhere. His sister-in-law and daughter were making a fire to cook.
When Xu Liang saw someone coming, he immediately picked up a hatchet from the ground. When he saw that it was Wang Dashan, he did not put down the hatchet.
"Brother Xu, you... did you see who took my pot just now?"
"I don't see you. You don't care about your own things. Why don't you come and ask me?"
There was no lid on the pot, and amid the smoke, Wang Dashan saw rice grains rolling around in Xu Liang's pot. There was a faint aroma of porridge, and a lot of saliva suddenly secreted from his mouth, as if he wanted to stretch out his hands to grab it.
The meal in that pot.
Wang Dashan lowered his head and looked away, "Can, can you... lend me some porridge, she is going to have a baby,..."
"I don't have much for you." Xu Liangcheng stared at Wang Dashan warily, "Master Xiaowazi said that he doesn't have any extra food."
Wang Dashan knelt down and said to Xu Liang, "Brother Xu, please borrow some first so that the baby can have enough to eat during the Chinese New Year. I will pay you back double or triple next time."
"Whatever you can grab, you get the least every time. It's weird if you still get it. I won't borrow it. Get away. This belongs to my eldest brother." Xu Liang is also very thin, but when it comes to his eldest brother, he seems to be confident.
That's enough.
Xu Zhu's daughter-in-law, who was lighting the fire, also said to Wang Dashan, "No one has too much of the Wang family, so go back."
"Go away!" Xu Liang waved his hatchet at Wang Dashan. In the past, Wang Dashan would be frightened and retreated far away, but today Wang Dashan didn't seem to see it. He just knelt there blankly with his eyes fixed.
Staring at the porridge and rice rolling in the country.
Xu Zhu's wife sighed, "If I have more, I'll give it to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden noise outside, gradually approaching from a distance.
Xu Liang was shocked and confused. He held the hatchet nervously and stood on tiptoe to look outside. He couldn't see clearly in the smoke, but there were many figures running. He wanted to go out and take a look, but Wang Dashan was still kneeling in front of him.
I dare not leave my sister-in-law alone to take care of the food.
There was the faint sound of horse hooves on the official road, and Xu Liang's mouth gradually opened wide. The masters of each family had gone out to collect grain, and they would not come back from the official road over there.
A burst of exclamation came, "The officers and soldiers are coming!"
"The servant on horseback!"
There were cries and shouts all around, and the crowd was running around like a nest. Xu Liang was also confused, and hurriedly grabbed his sister-in-law, niece and nephew, and the four of them ran out in panic.
In the smoke, Wang Dashan was still kneeling on the ground in a daze, as if he had not heard any sound.
Amidst the noise came his sister-in-law's shrill cry, "He took the rice bag, the pot, and the pot away. It's all ready."
The sound of horse hooves boomed from the official road. Wang Dashan finally reacted. He stood up and staggered to the Xu family's pot. The fire below was still burning, and the pot of gruel was steaming hot.
It was tumbling, and there were spoons and two pairs of bowls and chopsticks beside it.
There were shouts with an Anqing accent on the other side of the broken wall, but they couldn't be heard clearly among the howls of the slaves. Wang Dashan didn't have time to listen. He rushed to the pot and scooped up the porridge with a spoon, and put the boiling porridge into his mouth.
Sending it out, he exhaled a hissing sound that was burned in his mouth. He didn't care much, blew a few puffs at random, and then pushed it into his mouth again.
There were shrill screams all around, but Wang Dashan seemed not to hear them. After taking two mouthfuls of porridge, even his stomach felt warm.
"Here comes the porridge." Wang Dashan dropped the spoon. As if he had endless strength, he grabbed the ears of the pot with both hands to carry it back to his pothole.
"Put it down for me!"
The voice was a bit familiar. Wang Dashan didn't look at it. He only felt a force hitting him and fell to the corner. He slowly looked up. The smoke was a bit blurry, but he recognized Xu Liang. He didn't see his sister-in-law and a pair of children.
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Wang Dashan didn't know why Xu Liang came back, but he knew that Xu Liang was carrying the pot and the pot could not be taken away.
Xu Liang didn't look at Wang Dashan at all. He put the sack of grain on his body, squatted down to carry the pot, and put the hatchet on the ground.
A sound of horse hoofbeats passed outside the smoke, and the vague silhouette of the rider passed by with a strange cry. Xu Liang squatted down in panic, looking outside but not daring to rush out.
Wang Dashan fell against the wall. He turned his head and looked at his hole, just in time to see the woman's forehead. He stayed for a while and then struggled to get up. He reached over and grabbed the hatchet, and stood shakingly in front of Xu Liang.
Behind him, the running officers and cavalry seemed not to exist at all. Xu Liang in front of him was not aware of it, and his attention was entirely outside.
Wang Dashan suddenly screamed, clenched the hatchet with both hands and slashed it towards Xu Liang's head.
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"Eat quickly!" Wang Dashan blew on the spoon, saw the blood on the back of his hand, wiped it on his clothes, and then put the spoon on the woman's lips.
As soon as the woman tasted the taste, she jumped like an electric shock. She grabbed the spoon with both hands and poured it into her mouth.
Wang Dashan grinned and raised another broken bowl, which was filled with porridge. The woman dropped the spoon and poured it into her mouth while holding the bowl.
"Slow down, don't burn it."
The woman responded vaguely, but the broken bowl was immediately empty. In a blink of an eye, she saw the porridge pot, threw it down on the porridge pot, and kept putting the bowl into her mouth, without even noticing the blood stains floating on it.
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The fire in the Xu Jiazhen pit next to it was almost extinguished, and the smoke became fainter. The figures of the army and cavalry were galloping on the field, and there were screams all around. However, Wang Dashan was not afraid at all, and just looked at the woman with a grin.
The woman finally raised her head and said, "You also eat the boss."
Wang Dashan responded and reached out to pick up the spoon on the ground. Just as he reached into the pot, a figure suddenly broke into the thin smoke in front of him.
The person who came was an officer and soldier wearing a rare earth-colored military uniform. He did not wear any armor. Although he looked ferocious, he could still tell that he was a young man.
When Wang Dashan saw the officers and soldiers, he gradually regained his consciousness. The actions of the officers and soldiers he heard and saw along the way made his scalp tingle, and he did not know how to put down the spoon in his hand. The woman also raised her head, looking at the officers and soldiers in a daze.
The officers and soldiers held knives in their hands, swept around, and walked slowly towards Wang Dashan.
Wang Dashan stood in front of the woman, turned over and knelt down and kowtowed to the officers and soldiers, "I beg you, sir, to let the child eat well before killing him."
The young officer and soldier actually stopped and said, "Are you from Anqing?"
Wang Dashan lay on the ground and did not dare to raise his head, "The villain lives in Songren, Moyanpu, Moyanpu."
The young officer and soldier shouted angrily, "Then why do you want to be a bandit!"
"The villain did not become a bandit. He was caught by thieves. He was caught."
"Rogue bandits are just rogue bandits. I don't know how many people they killed to steal this food."
Wang Dashan subconsciously looked aside and saw that the wound on Xu Liang's head and neck was still steaming. He quickly turned around and raised his hand to shake it. His palm was full of blood, "No, no..."
When the young officers and soldiers saw the blood, they stopped talking and raised their knives to force them over. There was still blood flowing on the blade. Wang Dashan howled loudly in despair and let out meaningless screams. He held the woman tightly with one hand and backed away until he was back.
His back was pressed against the wall of the pit.
Suddenly there was a sharp whistle outside, and the young officer and soldier stopped immediately after hearing the whistle. After the whistle stopped, the young officer and soldier obviously hesitated for a moment, and then wanted to walk towards Wang Dashan. At this time, the whistle sounded again, faintly.
I heard someone shouting with an Anqing accent, "Mr. Qian has an urgent order, gather immediately! Close the team!"
Wang Dashan's back was pressed against the wall of the pit, and he had no way to retreat. The young officer and soldier looked at the woman, glared at Wang Dashan fiercely, and quickly disappeared outside the broken wall at the urging of the whistle.
The two of them panted rapidly, and sharp whistles resounded throughout the field. The surrounding officers and soldiers retreated in unison, leaving only the injured people howling miserably. Wang Dashan paused for breath, crawled over, dragged the porridge pot over, and held the porridge pot with him.
The woman leaned over the pot and continued to devour it with a spoon and a broken bowl.
The remaining blood drops in the porridge pot flowed with the movement of the bowl and spoon, and gradually disappeared without a trace.
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapter content, please download the Xingxing Reading app, and read the latest chapter content for free without ads. The website no longer updates the latest chapter content, and the Xingxing Reading app has updated the latest chapter content.
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He took a deep breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around and became even more confused.
A single dorm?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change left Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
My body and appearance have all changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:???
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
Intern pet breeder. The website will be closed soon. Download the Star Reading app to provide you with the great god Ke Shanmeng’s