The commander-in-chief answered while chewing on the chicken leg.
"It's about ten days' journey to Jinzhou from here. The governor's surname is Zeng, and he is my cousin."
"The ice on the river is not thick and it is not difficult to break the ice. I will write a letter later and ask Governor Zeng to mobilize all the fish boats to break the ice on the river."
"Okay, let's do it like this." Zhu Xiangyu chewed the chicken leg bone, sucked out the bone marrow inside, and gave the commander an appreciative look.
The commander-in-chief smiled happily, feeling that he had secured his position.
After eating and drinking, the general went to write a letter.
Two letters, one to the owner Wei Xuanyuan and one to Zeng, the governor of Jinzhou.
Zhu Xiangyu was particularly cautious about the letter he wrote to Wei Xuanyuan. He was illiterate himself, so he asked Zeng Zongbing to revise it over and over again. Only when he was satisfied did he send the letter to the capital overnight.
After doing this, Zhu Xiangyu yawned and went to the main room.
After fighting all night and traveling all day and night, I was exhausted.
Just as he was taking off his outer clothes and preparing to rest, his subordinates came in to report.
"General, the owner of this family is pleading outside, saying that he has nowhere to go and wants to spend one night in his woodshed. General, will you agree?"
"Master? Can they still be the masters of this place when I'm here?" Zhu Xiangyu covered himself with a thick quilt and muttered, "Let them die wherever they like. If they dare to disturb my sleep, they will be chopped down."
Already."
"Yes, General." The subordinate took the order and went, and soon there were crying and cursing outside.
"Robbers~~ You bandits, God will take care of you, His Highness the Night King will take care of you'
Zhu Xiangyu was not angry when he was called a robber, but when he heard the word "Night King", he became angry and said fiercely outside, "Kill their whole family." After saying this, he quickly fell asleep.
When he woke up the next day, Zhu Xiangyu ordered his soldiers to plunder all the food in the town. He killed the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, and then continued to flee northward like locusts.
And the townspeople who had been looted were dead and injured, crying to the sky in despair.
In a remote farmer's house in the mountains of Luozhou, A Qin and Emperor Qi Heng stayed here last night.
They were worried that there would be danger if a war broke out, so they went into the mountains to take shelter as soon as they discussed it.
This place is surrounded by mountains and is relatively remote. They were unaware of the burning of the military camp last night, and did not know that the Night King was sending people to look for them everywhere. They planned to go out to inquire about the news later and see what the situation was.
They said they were staying overnight, but the two of them actually sat around the firepit all night.
All the firewood was burning in the fire pit, which was smoky and scorching.
The mountains were poor, and the snowstorm came unexpectedly. The dry firewood had been burned long ago, and there was not even a thick bed or quilt at home. It was extremely poor. Emperor Qi Heng looked at the peasant family with only four walls and felt ashamed. He was really not a good emperor!
Just as he was sighing, the woman from this family came out with two bowls of hot porridge.
He said to them sheepishly, "Master and miss, we don't have much to eat in the mountains, so you just have to make do with filling your stomachs." Then he put two bowls of porridge into the hands of Emperor Qi Heng and A Qin one by one.
This bowl of porridge is actually just potato paste, and it is probably the last food for this family.
"Auntie, can we still live at home? Do we still have rice and grain?" Where can Emperor Qi Heng eat it? He felt extremely ashamed and put the porridge aside.
"Yes, yes, you two can eat with confidence." The aunt said hurriedly and handed the porridge to Emperor Qi Heng. "I'm afraid you will be hungry when you go out. You can go back to your hometown as soon as possible.'
She said yes, but Emperor Qi Heng saw several ragged children next to him with snot dripping from their noses and staring at the bowl of porridge with hungry faces. They were obviously hungry.
"Really?" Aqin asked the aunt in disbelief.
"Yes, of course, you can eat it without worry." The aunt smiled, but her eyes were red. She turned around and was about to leave, when a two or three-year-old child rushed up and hugged the woman's leg.
"Mom~~I'm hungry.'
"I'm not hungry, I'll be fine in a few days." The woman said, picking up the child and preparing to leave.
"It will be fine in a few days? How do you say this?" Emperor Qi Heng asked strangely.
"His Royal Highness will invade Luozhou in a few days, and we, the people of Luozhou, will be saved." The woman wiped the corners of her eyes, with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
Emperor Qi Heng couldn't help but be moved after hearing these words. He didn't expect that the only thing people dare to look forward to now is the Night King! The court doesn't even dare to look forward to it. It's so sad!
"Auntie." Emperor Qi Heng felt sad for a while, then handed the bowl of porridge to the woman's hand and said sadly, "You have no food now, right? How many more days can you last?'
The woman looked at the hungry children and knew she couldn't hide it. She choked and said, "These two bowls of porridge were made by the last two potatoes in our family."
Tears rolled down her face as she spoke.
"If His Highness the Night King doesn't attack Luozhou as soon as possible to save us, our whole family, no, our entire village will have no way to survive."
"So, sir, just eat these two bowls of porridge. At least it will save your lives."
"And what does it matter whether we have something to eat or not? We can't rely on this to save the lives of our whole family."
As the woman spoke, she pushed the porridge to Emperor Qi Heng.
Emperor Qi Heng's mood was extremely sour and sad. At the same time, he also blamed himself. He was the cause of the chaos in the Zhou Kingdom and the people's deprivation of life!
At this time, Aqin came up and hugged the child without saying a word, "Mom, it will be fine if we don't drink this porridge, but how can the child hold up at such a young age?" She began to feed the child the porridge.
Emperor Qi Heng also handed the bowl of porridge to the other older children, asking each of them to take a sip to temporarily relieve their hunger.
The woman stood there, not knowing what to do. At this time, the man who had gone into the mountain early in the morning came back from the snow with a limp and a stick in his hand, covered with injuries.
He was full of fatigue, weakness, misery and despair.
"Originally I lassoed a muntjac, but a hungry wolf gnawed it down to only a skeleton. I originally wanted to bring those bones back to make soup, but I didn't expect to be targeted by a hungry wolf, and I almost couldn't come back.
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"Oh, let's not talk anymore~ By the way, has His Highness the Night King attacked Luozhou? Is there any news?"
When he said these words, the man's eyes were full of hope, as if their lives could only depend on this to have a chance to survive. It was their last hope.
"I don't know. I'm going to let the child go out and find out. Elderly, go to the village and ask." The woman stepped forward to help her man and yelled to the main room.
A boy in his teens hurriedly responded to the order, rolled and crawled in the snow, and dragged his thin body to the village.
"Guest, please go inside and warm yourself by the fire. It's cold outside." The man looked at Emperor Qi Heng and A Qin and smiled, not knowing what to say.
Aqin quickly took out a medical bag and said to the uncle, "Uncle, you are injured, I will give you medicine."
"How expensive are the medicinal materials? There is no need to use them. They will be ready in a few days." The uncle declined politely.
But without saying a word, Aqin helped the woman to help the uncle sit in the room, treated the uncle's wounds and sprinkled gold wound medicine on him.