The Three Kingdoms started from fooling Jia Xu

Chapter 336 What is it, Han Shang

Yuzhou, north of Yingchuan County.

On the border of Yangcheng County, in the barren and cracked fields, a group of hungry people wandered like walking corpses. The place they wanted to go was Yangcheng County.

It is said that there is a porridge shop in Yangcheng County.

But in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, due to the long drought and no rain, the seedlings have already withered and the weeds can't survive. The dry and hard soil along the roads has been turned over and over again.
It is estimated that they are looking for some grass roots and earthworms.

There are still many people digging, and from time to time, they can hear the sound of being happy that they have dug it, and then they are afraid that others will snatch it, and they directly squeeze the earthworm and swallow it into their stomachs.

Delicious, really delicious!

And most people, envious and jealous, can only hold on to the last ray of hope, staggeringly, and walk towards Yangcheng.

To be alive has already become the greatest luxury!

However, there were too many refugees who fell along the way, and some of them could never get up again.

Li Jue, with his whole family, mixed among the fleeing teams, staggering and walking in a daze, no one knew what would happen at the end.

It is estimated that they will also turn into dry bones on the roadside.

Along the way, his mother starved to death!
His eldest son joined the army, but now there is no news.

The second son, Li Cun, couldn't withstand the sickness and hunger, and left some time ago, leaving his corpse in the wilderness, fearing that he would eventually be reduced to the rations of wild animals, but there was nothing he could do.

And he, and his wife, protected their three sons and daughter, because along the way, countless green eyes wandered on their children.

The more I think about it, the more frightened it becomes.

In order to live, many people became demons.

The sky was already dark, and Li Jue's family was digging wild vegetables with wooden sticks, and they were still half-dead roots. Every time they dug up one, the family was very happy.

After working for a long time, I only dug up six or seven semi-dead grass roots, but the smiles on the faces of the family were reflected under the fire. In this era of extreme scarcity of grass roots,
It is God's favor to let them dig some.

The family of four, feeling the temperature of the fire, stared at the boiled vegetable stems in the earthen pot, and swallowed their saliva because they were hungry.

Swallowing hard to satisfy hunger with hot water,

Not even the light green and grayish soup remained.

Their home is not bad, but they are malnourished and swollen all over. Some refugees, because they have been hungry for too long, have already exhausted their only fat, and even their muscles are shrinking.

It looked like a mummy.

As night fell, many people could not wake up.

"Mother, I'm hungry!" Li Zhou touched his belly and couldn't help but shouted at his mother.

"Zhou'er, go to sleep, you won't be hungry when you fall asleep." Mother squeezed out a smile, why isn't she hungry?But here is not far from Yang County, and there is still half a day's journey.

Li Zhou didn't answer, but looked at the stars in the sky.

Gradually, the howling of wolves echoed across the land. These refugees should have been terrified, but they got used to it.Because this group of wolves, tigers, leopards, black bears and wild dogs rarely come to catch them and eat them.

Because, there are enough fallen refugees along the way, enough for them to have a full meal, and they don't need to work hard to catch some who are not dead.

In a blink of an eye, the sky brightened.

On the barren land, countless people got up staggeringly, but there were also countless people who couldn't wake up. There were wailing sounds from the side, and some people even swallowed their saliva.
Eventually, they decided to say "eat."

Li Jue and his family staggered towards Yang City again. There was hope for them to survive, and they had to persevere there.

Follow the tide of refugees and surge past.

Perhaps because of poor physical strength, the original half-day journey actually waited until sunset to arrive.

From a distance, although Yangcheng is not tall, in the eyes of Li Jue's family, this is their hope of survival.Especially looking at the queue in the distance.

At the end of the line, Li Jue vaguely saw the porridge shed.

"We're saved, mother-in-law, we're saved." Trembling, Li Jue took them to dig some grass roots, and they dug up an unknown amount of land.

Lighting a fire is still all about grass roots.

After one person drank two large bowls, their bodies became even more swollen, but this time they had smiles on their faces, because they had finally arrived, and there was government porridge here, so they would not starve to death.

Well, it's been a long time since I tasted porridge.

Yes, it should be delicious!

"Girl, you wait here, I'll go over there to line up, tomorrow, tomorrow we can have hot porridge!" Li Jue is a big man, but his eyes are red.

It's not easy, it's really not easy.

Alive, he just wanted to keep his family alive.

He doesn't expect to have a full mouthful of food, he only hopes to have two bowls of thin porridge to continue his life.

"Yeah," the wife nodded.

They knew that they were all queuing up tonight, and they saw the end of the few refugees who wanted to jump in line just now, so that was fine.

At dawn, most people opened their eyes.

They were all woken up by starvation, and Li Jue didn't have much rest all night. He only hoped to serve his wife and children a bowl of hot porridge at dawn.

However, the queue in front of him was very long.

At this time, under the expectant eyes of countless people, the heavy gate of Yangcheng slowly opened.The county soldiers who opened the way maintained order, while the officials in the city brought people to bring rice porridge.

The rice porridge was as light as water, and if it hadn't been stirred with a wooden spoon, the corn would not be visible, but even this kind of porridge, there were not many places in the world to give relief.

"Line up, line up, come one by one!"

On the contrary, the officials looked greasy and overwhelmed.

With the official disaster relief workers in place, the eyes of the nearly [-] refugees outside the city became fierce.

The little official began to serve porridge, spoonful into bowls.

The porridge in the bowl was clear into the water, with a layer of rice bran floating on it, as for the corn, there were only a dozen or twenty grains.But even so, the group of refugees kept thanking them.

After receiving it, some carefully served it to their family members, while others swallowed the rice porridge whole, and even scraped the pottery bowl with their tongues.

Rice bran has a loud voice, but it is still a luxury.

And after drinking, they could feel the sand and stones, but they ate it with a mouthful of saliva. For them, it might be the most delicious food in the world, not one of them.

Li Jue watched and kept swallowing his saliva.

He was so hungry that he had double vision.

However, at this time, only a few hundred people were sent, and the words of the county magistrate shocked him and brought him back to his senses.

"Today's porridge is exhausted, come back tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, the county magistrate was too lazy to ask these refugees whether they were alive or not, and turned his head to lead them away, leaving behind the loud shouts near the porridge shed, and some hungry people came forward to pester them with red eyes,
However, he was beaten up by the county soldiers.

"Hmph, a bunch of goddamn assholes," the county magistrate rolled his eyes and snorted coldly. If the county magistrate hadn't strongly demanded disaster relief, he would be lazy to care about these assholes.

The food for disaster relief is not enough for them to eat.

The hundreds of people who were able to give alms were all because of their flesh.After all, for them, the food for disaster relief is just for them.

There is no way, in this troubled world, whoever has the ability will live, not to mention the sky is high and the emperor is far away, every place is the same, who can control them?

Even if it was the food sent by Zhang Xiu, they were not worried, because Yuzhou and Yanzhou were in such a mess, Zhang Xiu had no way to check it out, so they had nothing to fear.

When everyone was in despair, a group of fresh clothes rushed out on angry horses, and the leader shouted: "My grandfather accepts maidservants, who are over 12 years old and under 15 years old. They have beautiful faces and are worth half a bucket of corn."

Hearing this, a group of daughters stepped forward to inquire, and then took their daughters to slide into the dry Yingshui riverbed, washing their cheeks.

Lan Fang, the youngest daughter of the Li family, was thirteen years old. She said to her mother, "Mother, sell your daughter, half a bucket of rice, and save enough to eat for several days."

Li's mother bowed her head and said nothing, her heart ached, she knew that it would not be a matter of a rich family recruiting maidservants, just recruiting some female concubines for people to play with.

"Mother, the elder brother and the second brother are already dead, the third brother cannot die, and the Zhao family still wants him to pass on incense." After Li Lanfang finished speaking, she begged again: "Mother, let's leave a way for my daughter."

Glancing at Li Zhou who was still asleep, he had already passed out from hunger.

Mother Li turned her back, closed her eyes towards the sky, and shed two lines of dirty tears. Turning around, she silently took the little daughter's hand, and walked towards the bed of Yingshui River with heavy steps but resolutely.

With tears in her eyes, Mother Li was washing her daughter.

This time, she was very serious, because this farewell will last forever, and it is impossible for the two of them, mother and son, to meet again.

The river water washed Li Lanfang's small face, it was delicate and lovable, but she was also a beauty.

When he pulled her towards the group of people in fresh clothes and angry horses, Mother Li's heart was bleeding. During this time, Li Jue also came back. He just silently glanced at his daughter,

Then he turned his head sadly, unable to bear it.

"She's a pretty girl." The leading man sized up Li Lanfang, but grabbed a cloth bag and threw it directly in front of Li's mother.

"Okay, stop recruiting!"

Mother Li didn't go to see her daughter, but stared blankly at the bag of corn, estimated to be five or six catties (Han Jin), which would be their hope of survival.

Li Jue stepped forward, and the two of them held the bag of rice tightly in their arms, but there were still countless pairs of green eyes looking at them, each of them staggered and swallowed their saliva.

Like a tigress protecting a calf, Mother Li pulled out a rusty kitchen knife and roared ferociously, "What are you going to do? Get out, get out!"

It's just that, for these refugees, let alone killing and robbing rice, they have eaten even human beings.

Li Jue dragged his mother-in-law and ran away, their first priority was to take Li Zhou out of here to survive this period of time.

As for the hungry people, they couldn't bear it anymore and started chasing after them, whining like mummified corpses, but after running not far away, there was a clatter of horseshoes.

The horse team is coming soon,

Thousands of refugees froze.

The leader glanced around, a little irritated, grabbed a refugee, and said fiercely: "Where is the porridge?"

"Back, back to the city!" The refugee trembled.

"Damn it, the relief was finished just after dawn? A bunch of sons of bitches." The leader wasn't complaining for the common people, but felt that he didn't get any benefits.

There was nothing these county soldiers could do in the city. They wanted to rob the porridge shop, but these government officials were so thieves that they closed the stall early in the morning.

"Brother, we can't make this trip in vain, can we? Look, some people seem to have rice sacks, which are barely enough for the Teeth Ceremony." The younger brother next to him yelled.

"Hmph, whoever still has food, hand it all over, or you will be shot." The leader glanced around, then drew out his saber, and gave the horse thief behind him a look.

When the looting started, more than a dozen households who got rice fled one after another, but how could they run with two legs better than four.In just a moment, several households fell into pools of blood.

Rice bags were soaked in blood.

Thousands of refugees around are fleeing everywhere. In such a chaotic world, horse thieves are synonymous with death, because no one can compete with them.

As for the government... huh...

Just looking around in the city.

There are hundreds of county soldiers in the city, as long as they do something, how can these dozens of horse thieves be arrogant?

This is troubled times,
Living is a luxury!

Because of this, the people of Jingzhou know that life is hard-won, and their respect for Zhang Xiu cannot be expressed clearly in a sentence or two.

Without Zhang Xiu, Jingzhou would have been devastated by war.

And they, not to mention that they are full, may not even have to drink porridge, how sad?

Holding a stick, Li Jue used his body to protect his wife and children, and kept yelling at a horse thief who was killing him in the distance, trying to scare him away.

However, the horse thief came to kill with a knife.

call out!Puff!

At this time, a feather arrow pierced through the body.

In the distance, Zhang Xiu slowly put down his bow and arrow, his eyes were gloomy.

Coming closer, he saw a lot.

Perhaps, in the document memorial, he will never see this scene. He saw many refugees along the way, but this place touched his heartstrings.

"Boy, which mountain are you from? Why do you have to fight against each other and hurt your peace?" The leader said with a frown.

"You, damn it!" Zhang Xiu was really angry, he was angry that these horse thieves were cruel, he was angry that the county soldiers in the city were indifferent, he was angry that these thousands of people only knew to flee.

"Not one left!" Zhang Xiu said with a trembling voice.

As the words came out, the guards behind them narrowed their eyes, revealing a cold light, which was murderous.

Step forward and dismount.

Mother Li shrank vigilantly, and didn't want to communicate with Zhang Xiu at all, because Zhang Xiu was likely to seek her food.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Xiu slowly closed his eyes.

He smiled, it was a self-deprecating sneer, and he was angry with a smile, it was a thunderous rage.Although the tragedy of the people here was not caused by him,
But now, these people belong to themselves.

"Ma'am, is your food distributed in the city?" Zhang Xiu asked tentatively.

Mother Li shook her head, gritted her teeth, and finally said viciously: "The dog officials in the city only help a few hundred people a day, but there are tens of thousands of people outside the city."

"The world is as black as crows. I heard that Zhang Xiu is a sage, and his rule is stable and peaceful, but this relief food is just that. It's ridiculous."

Mother Li spoke from her heart.

If she had known this, her family would not have traveled long distances, holding on to this last hope.

"You woman, what are you talking nonsense?" Hu Che'er stepped forward and drew his sword, a little annoyed.

Zhang Xiu raised his hand, motioning for him to back off.

Yuzhou, Yanzhou was newly occupied, and the secret guards were not manned enough, and the clerks from all over the place urged food and said that they would provide disaster relief. If he still decides the affairs of the world in Xiangyang, he may have been really deceived.

Are they really giving away food?
He distributed tens of thousands of grain and salaries just to allow the people of the two states to survive, but the officials filled their pockets?Such a national crisis is like this?

How can Zhang Xiu tolerate him?
PS: The background of this chapter is a copycat. I was watching Lao Wang’s Zhen recently, and it was very shocking. I moved it here as a foreshadowing introduction to describe the pain behind the next dynasty.

Then how does the main character deal with it!

(End of this chapter)