The main army around Xianyang City is no more than one hundred thousand people. Vertex Novel Updates Fastest
For the common people's chaos, fifty thousand regular soldiers and fifty thousand more soldiers, a total of one hundred thousand people, were led into Chen County by the trapped army. Most of the remaining troops were transferred to Xianyang to defend.
Wherever the rebellious army passed, they plundered food from all over the place, and those who did not follow up with the rebellion were robbed and lost, and fell to various places, becoming refugees. The refugees had no food, and they robbed and robbed in order to survive. As a result, the number of refugees increased, and the counties in the county were in chaos, and the people had no way to live.
In a village in a county, the ground is only covered with withered soil, and the roots of the turf must have been pulled out and eaten.
The dilapidated houses stood on the loess, and the door frames were locked.
In the house, a sallow-faced and thin woman was lighting a fire with dry wood, and a large bowl was placed on the fire. A ladle of shallow water was boiled in the bowl, and a few grass leaves and grass roots were floating on the water, and some beans were still boiled under the water, and a few pieces of bean skins were floating.
It must have been cooking for a while, but the woman swallowed a mouthful of saliva as she looked at the bowl of grass soup or bean soup.
"Wow"
There was a cry from the bed behind her, but the cry was silent, or rather weak.
The woman was startled, got up quickly, wiped her hands and walked to the bed.
Looking at the child on the bed, he picked up the child in a panic and patted the child on the back.
"If you're not hungry, you'll have something to eat right away."
The woman said softly, "Not hungry, not hungry."
Her eyes gradually turned red, and in the end, even her tone was choked up, until she couldn't speak and cried silently.
The child in her arms stopped crying. The woman pursed her mouth, put the child on the bed, took a bowl and a spoon, poured out the burning soup, and brought it in front of the child.
Wiping the tears off his face, he scooped up the boiled beans with a spoon, blew them warm, and brought them to the child's mouth.
He smiled and said softly, "Come on, let's eat."
The child opened his mouth and ate the beans, and the woman fed him spoon by spoon until the child was full and fell asleep.
The woman looked at the cold soup in her hand, there were still a few pieces of bean skin and grass leaves in it, and drank it clean.
She put the bowl down and looked around the house, but there was nothing on all sides.
Walk to a wooden cabinet, open the cabinet, inside there is a worn cloth bag, the size of a palm. The woman took out the cloth bag, and there were probably half a bag of beans in it.
After carefully reading it again, the woman finally couldn't help it, sobbing while holding the bag.
There was not enough to eat, and there was no way to grow food in the field. Even if it could, she had nothing to grow. Even if it is planted, it will take several months to reap the harvest. It is impossible for her and the child to survive until then.
These beans are not enough for her children to eat for a long time.
She didn't know what to do. She had already sold everything that could be sold at home and could be exchanged for food. She really had no choice.
"Bang bang bang!"
There was a rough knock on the door, and the woman was so frightened that she hurriedly put the bag back in the cabinet and closed it, putting her hands on her clothes.
Facing the door, he asked nervously, "Who is it?"
"Inspector." A man's voice outside the door yelled violently.
The tears in the woman's eyes almost flowed again, she didn't open the door and huddled by the wall.
"I, our family has nothing, no food."
There was a rebellion in Chen County, and the rebels robbed food everywhere, and those who were robbed of food and houses either followed the rebel army to receive rations.
Or they will become refugees, these refugees will not be any better than the rebellious army, in order to have a stutter, wandering around stealing, smashing and looting.
They couldn't rob the rebels, so they robbed the old and weak women and children.
It is impossible for someone to check the food, and the person checking the food outside the door is nothing more than to grab the food.
The woman hid in the corner and didn't open the door or make a sound, but the old door panel couldn't stop anything.
The people outside started banging on the door, one sound after another was dull.
It must have woken up the child, and the child on the bed burst into tears.
The woman ran to the bed, held the child in her arms, and huddled in a corner.
The door was finally knocked open, and a man walked in panting, looking into the room, but saw no one except a woman and a child.
Sneered at the woman: "Hand over the food."
The woman shrank there, just shook her head vigorously, and said in a crying voice: "It's gone, it's really gone, please, let me go."
"Leave you alone."
The man looked at the woman and the child, his expression seemed to be relaxed, but he soon sank again, and said in a low voice.
"Let go of you, who will let me go?"
He didn't say anything, and he didn't do anything to the woman, he just searched in the house and turned everything up.
In the end he opened the wooden cabinet, saw the dry and old bag in the wooden cabinet, and took the bag out.
The man opened the bag, and a few beans spilled from his belt, he picked it up, tied the bag tightly again, and was ready to go out.
"No!" The woman wailed, put down the child, and rushed forward to grab the man's arm.
Kneeling there, he begged with all his might, "That's the last one, it's reserved for my children, please, really please"
As the woman spoke, she kowtowed her head on the ground until her forehead was broken, and blood flowed from her forehead.
The man didn't say anything, pushed the woman's hand away and walked out the door.
The woman chased him out, tugging at the hem of his clothes: "Give it back to me, give it back to me."
The doors of other houses in the village were locked tightly, and no one came out to help.
They didn't grab it because of the old feelings, no one would want to come out to provoke right and wrong at this time.
Suddenly, there were bursts of dull voices from afar.
It was an army coming, and from a distance, a general in white clothes and armor could be seen holding a spear, and behind him was an endless army.
The man didn't dare to think too much, he shook off the woman and ran away with the bag.
Only the woman fell to the ground, kneeling on the loess, her hands were stained with dust, and her clothes were messed up.
Kneeling there, she seemed to have lost everything and all her strength at once, and she fell down softly, crying on her stomach, tears slipping down and falling into the dust.
The army passed by the village, Gu Nan turned his eyes and saw a man kneeling there crying bitterly, his body seemed to be crushed.
The army didn't stop, but just walked along the road ahead. Along the way, they have seen too many people who couldn't survive.
They don't care, and they can't.
The army passed by, and the woman knelt there, not far from the side of the army, and cried for a long time, the sound of crying echoed in the army and reached everyone's ears.
Gu Nan walked in front, with his spear hanging by the side of the horse.