Chapter 669: Unexpected news
Just as Ren Xiaonian was stunned, a black shadow popped up under the bed. When he saw that he was just a half-year-old child, he was very quick and rolled over like a little tiger. He hugged Ren Xiaonian's calves with both hands, opened his mouth, and bitten it hard with a sound of Kaba.
Ren Xiaonian had leg armor tied on his calves. After he took a fierce mouth, Ren Xiaonian didn't feel much, but the child was in trouble and had lost a few baby teeth. When Ren Xiaonian bent down to lift him up, the little guy's mouth was full of blood and kept whining.
Ren Xiaonian couldn't help laughing.
He held a knife in his left hand and a half-grown child with blood in his right hand laughed loudly. At this time, Ren Xiaonian looked like an extremely evil bad guy from that angle.
The woman screamed miserably, and opened her hands and rushed towards Ren Xiaonian.
Ren Xiaonian sent forward with his right hand and sent the child to the woman's arms. At the same time, he took a step sideways to avoid the woman who could not hold her back. Seeing the woman holding the child tightly and rushing towards the wall, he stretched out his hand, grabbed the woman's shoulder, and dragged her back.
The woman who returned back fell to the ground and held the child tightly with her hands, half of her body, protecting the child under her body, and her hair was overturned, covering most of her face. She turned her head to look at Ren Xiaonian with a pleading look on her face.
Ren Xiaonian even put the knife into the sheath and squatted down in front of the woman: "Sister-in-law, we are the army of the court, not the bad guys. We just want to borrow your house to use it."
Seeing the woman still had a vigilant look, Ren Xiaonian sighed, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain to the woman. Suddenly, she heard a sound under the bed. When he turned his head, he saw a pair of bright eyes staring at him under the bed. When he looked carefully, he was a little girl about five or six years old, curled up like a kitten.
"Little sister, come out!" Ren Xiaonian waved.
The little girl slowly crawled out from under the bed, and snuggled tightly in front of the woman and the boy with trembling body.
Ren Xiaonian stood up, walked out of the house, took out a canned fruit from his horse's leather bag, returned to the side room, pried open the iron sheet on the can with a knife, and placed it in front of the three of them. He smiled, and walked out without saying a word.
It was still raining outside, and the villagers were carrying bags of food into the house to cubes.
"The situation is not right in Yingwei. In this village, there is no young man. The rest are either orphans and widows, or seventy-eighty-year-olds." A troupe walked in and said.
"Nothing is strange. I guess I was captured by Pinglu Army and used as a coolie." Ren Xiaonian shook his head: "Didn't you scare them?"
"We are scared from where to use it. Seeing that we didn't dare to speak or move, they didn't dare to raise their heads, let alone respond." The troupe said helplessly.
"Give each family some copper coins to be the compensation for requisition of their houses." Ren Xiaonian thought for a while, and then said, "Give each family some cans to comfort them, speak more gently, and don't be timid."
"I understand!" The troupe turned around and left.
Ren Xiaonian turned around and was startled again. At some point, the woman with black and black face lifted the curtain on the side box and stood by the door. Her little heads, one left and one right, were poked out from her left and right sides. There was still some flesh left on the little girl's mouth. When Ren Xiaonian turned to look over, she rolled her tongue and licked the flesh on her mouth into her mouth. There was still blood on the corner of the boy's mouth, and that bite was so fierce.
"Little guy, you bit me and your teeth collapsed, you can't blame me!" Ren Xiaonian said to the boy with a smile.
The boy reached out and covered his mouth.
The woman walked out and was blessed.
"Sister-in-law, we are really not bad people, we are the army of the court. If it is not troublesome, please ask my sister-in-law to boil some hot water for us." Ren Xiaonian said. He knew that saying too much at this moment would not have any effect. It would be better to let her do something, which would make her feel more cautious.
The woman turned around silently and walked towards the back room. The little girl followed her like a follower. However, the boy stayed and stared at Ren Xiaonian's calves for a while.
Ren Xiaonian smiled, stretched his legs generously, and knocked them with a scabbard, "See, I'm a bad guy, if you don't understand the situation, you'll bite it. You're not going to suffer a loss?"
The boy took the hand that was behind him and presented a jar that had been eaten clean and had not even left the soup in front of Ren Xiaonian.
"Is it delicious?" Ren Xiaonian asked with a smile.
"It's delicious!" The boy finally spoke, but his eyes were staring at the taller and taller grain piles in the house. "I'm hungry, my sister is hungry, and my mother is hungry. We haven't eaten for two days."
Ren Xiaonian was surprised, "Why didn't you eat for two days? Is there no food at home?"
"There were some, but many people came two days ago, and they also said they were the government troops, and then they snatched away everything they could eat at home." The little boy was obviously scared and his voice was trembling.
Ren Xiaonian's eyes suddenly narrowed: "Two days ago?"
"Yeah." said the little boy.
"How many people are there?"
"So many, a large area, and there are many horses." The little boy pointed to Ren Xiaonian's war horse outside.
Ren Xiaonian took a deep breath, walked to the door, and shouted: "Come here, inform all the officers above the gang leader, and the leaders of the civilian team to come to my meeting!"
Turning around and looking at the little boy, Ren Xiaonian smiled and said, "Good boy, you have helped me a lot, I want to reward you." He turned around and carried a bag from the soaked grain bags on the other side and placed it in front of the little boy: "Although it is wet, the grain is good food, and it will be dry for your mother, which will be enough for your family of three to eat for a good period of time."
The little boy was overjoyed, and he stepped forward to grab the grain bag and wanted to drag it into the back room, but a bag of grain was at least fifty kilograms. At a young age, even if his face turned red, he could not move at all.
Ren Xiaonian laughed loudly and waved his hand to let a man carry the little guy behind, and the little boy quickly followed.
After a while, the woman had walked out. At this moment, she had washed away the ash on her face. She looked like a cereal, but her face was full of food, and she was obviously hungry. When she walked to Ren Xiaonian, she knelt down with a loud bang: "Thank you, Jun, for the food reward!"
Ren Xiaonian helped him and said, "I'm invited this sister-in-law. We are the imperial army, so of course we can't watch our own people starve. By the way, your son said that the army had robbed your food two days ago? Do you know where they came from? How many people are there?"
"I don't know very well, I only know that these people are the same group of people as the one who caught the child's father." The woman whispered: "I don't know how many of them are. Anyway, there are hundreds of people coming to the village. Every household's food was stolen. As long as it was food, they would search all the food."
"Thank you, sister-in-law, I understand." Ren Xiaonian's face was a little heavy. If there were hundreds of people coming to the village, I was afraid that this team would inevitably be in this team.
"By the way, I heard someone call the leader General Liu." The woman turned her head and walked a few steps back, then stopped and turned her head and said.
The surname is Liu!
One of the famous generals named Liu in Linzi is Liu Xinda, who is an enemy general and cannot appear in this place. There is also another person who fought with Ren Xiaonian named Liu Santong, who is afraid it is probably him.
Liu Xinda was so arrogant that he had been beaten to this way. He was still thinking about the Tang army's food route and put a soldier outside.
Thinking of this, my heart couldn't help but feel a little cold, I was afraid that my family would have been targeted by others along the way. Maybe it was because of this sudden flood that the other party's attack plan failed, otherwise I would be suddenly attacked by others, and I would be afraid of being in great trouble.
But it is obvious that the other party has set his sights on him. Now, the danger has not been lifted. From the fact that these guys even robbed the food of these poor families, it means that they have reached the extreme shortage of food. Even if they have suffered heavy losses now and there is not much food to transport to the front line, I am afraid they will still come and grab it, because they also have to eat.
While thinking, the officers and civilian leaders who had already joined the team leader had all gathered over. Ren Xiaonian talked about the general situation and everyone's expressions became solemn.
"I don't know how many troops the enemy has, but at least it won't be less than a thousand." Ren Xiaonian said: "Maybe they still have a lot of cavalry, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, if they are nearby, they will definitely attack us."
"We only have three hundred people!" said an officer.
"There are quite a lot. Isn't it enough for the three hundred Tang troops to deal with the useless Pinglu troops? What's more, we still have more than three hundred young and strong!" Ren Xiaonian turned his eyes to the leader of the civilians: "This time, you are afraid you will be ready to fight. What's so pitiful is that we have discovered clues in advance and can arrange some defenses calmly. When I just entered the village, I took a look. The house we are in now has the best terrain, and all the food is concentrated here to prevent the enemy from simply destroying it if they can't get it. Although there is not much food, we must also protect it."
"yes!"
"Concentrate several families here here to avoid the time being. " Ren Xiaonian said: "I will assign a task and arrange defense immediately. From now on, everyone will have to be energetic."
"Do you want to release the scouts?"
Chapter completed!