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Guo Tao was about to eat when he suddenly felt a chill on his back. When he turned around, he found that there were seven or eight children standing on the bank of the river, both boys and girls, all of whom were under ten years old, black, thin and dirty. In the twelfth month of winter, their bodies were very thin, with only a few rag heads, and their feet were even surrounded by some hay. They were trembling in the cold wind, but their eyes were shining, staring at the dry food in their hands like wolves.

"Xiao Wang, ask them to come over and get some dry food for them to eat!"

He used to be like these children. When he saw them, he couldn't help but recall his yesterday and felt uncomfortable.

Xiao Wang ran over, and the children turned around and ran away like frightened deer. Xiao Wang took out the dry food in his hand and gestured for a long time before the children finally relaxed their vigilance, or the temptation of dry food suppressed their fear, and they began to follow them carefully.

"Take all these and eat them all!" Guo Tao smiled angrily.

The other guards also took out dry food for the children to eat, and some even took out their own items such as fat and silky cream to apply them to the children's hands and feet covered with frostbite.

Several guards had already set up marching pots and started boiling water to cook instant noodles, make fried noodles with oil and hot tea for these children. Many of Guo Tao's guards were from the school army to fight with him in the north. They were also from Boy Scouts and had similar orphan experiences.

Guo Tao lowered his head and prepared to give one of his scarves to the children. Suddenly, he felt that the neck was cold. It turned out that the largest of the children had taken out a handful of sharpened bone spurs and pressed it on his carotid artery.

He glanced at him sideways and found that it should be a cow bone, which was sharp as sharp as a pig's knife. As long as he moved a little, his carotid artery would be cut off.

Guo Tao could not imagine that a Ning Yuanbo who had been through more than ten battles would die at the hands of several little beggars. If this matter was spread, the Xi people who died under him would have to laugh out loud. They once dreamed of killing him. This was a waste of trouble. They did not do it, and a group of little beggars in Dingzhou would help them do it.

Thinking about this, I feel like I'm in love.

However, he could feel the trembling and fear of the black and thin boy's hand through the spur that pressed against his neck. He was sure that as long as he took action, he could kill the little beggar at any time. But he didn't do that in the end. In this case, he was not sure not to hurt the little guy.

He looked at his subordinates again and found that their situation was not much better. Several officers were holding a few bone spurs on their throats and backs. At this time, he fought back rashly. He would definitely hurt several children.

Seeing this, Guo Tao tried hard to restrain his emotions, slowly stretched out his hands and pressed down, indicating that his subordinates should not be impulsive. Their group was basically suffering from war and once became orphan beggars. Now facing a little beggar like them, he really couldn't bear to hurt them.

If the other party was a group of robbers, a group of bandits, or a group of enemy soldiers, he would never wait to die or kill him.

He pressed his hands a few times, stabilized his subordinates, then turned his head with difficulty, and said to the young black and thin young man who was shaking all over because of fear or cold, "You have something to discuss, what do you want?"

"Little brother, we have to leave immediately. Otherwise, you can keep all the food in this car, how about it?"

The thin black boy's lips trembled, and he opened his mouth and scolded: "I'll fuck you, my mother, shut up, and I'll even strip your clothes on you, so that you can go on the road with bare feet. Do you believe it?"

Guo Tao was so angry that he smoked his orifices, but he still tried hard to restrain himself. He said to the staff with a dark face: "I don't have time to get entangled with them. Military affairs are urgent, so let's get out quickly!"

The staff officer whispered: "Damn, I met a bandit and thief. I didn't look at the calendar when I went out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit hard on his back. A young man with two front teeth clenched his fist, "Who are you scolding me?"

The thin black and thin boy who held the bone spur to Guo Tao said to the boy without front teeth: "Zhuzi, go back to the village quickly and ask uncles to come over!"

"Okay, Brother Heizi." The young man clenched his fists and rushed to a thin girl next to him with a comb and a bun, and said, "Erya, look at this dog official, I'll call someone." He said that and ran away.

Zhuzi ran back to Zhaozhuang by the river and pushed open the gate of his own courtyard. He saw his father Zhao Fugui sitting angrily on the stool in the yard. It seemed that he had already learned about Zhuzi and the others' robbery first. Zhao Wangshi looked full of sorrow and was washing a handful of grassroots quietly. From time to time, he stopped to sigh.

The thirteen-year-old sister Cui'er hid timidly behind her mother, like a thin kitten, constantly choosing vegetable roots in her hands, and her big eyes observing her father's face from time to time.

Seeing that the lawless son was back, Zhao Fugui cursed with a slight face: "Little bastard, he is getting more and more promising, and he dares to rebel. If the government knows, our family will be a crime of being executed!"

Zhuzi argued: "Aye, you can't say that. This is called the officials forcing the people to rebel. In recent years, it has been natural disasters and man-made disasters. After fighting back and forth, the soldiers have passed like bandits. In our area, the food in the field has long been stolen, all the seeds have been stolen, and even all the young and strong men in the village have been captured. Dad, if you hadn't broken your legs that year, how could you hide now? But my elder brother, second brother, third brother, and fourth brother have been conquered one by one in recent years, but none of them have come back, and there is no news. My fourth brother is only fifteen years old, and I don't know where they are now. Brothers have not had news for so long, so I'm afraid they have already..."

Zhao Fugui raised his crutch and was about to smash it on the head of the pillar, "Damn it, I'll beat you to death!"

Zhuzi's mother came over to stop Zhuzi's father, and helped him sit down, then turned her head and said to Zhuzi with red eyes: "Xiao Wu. How can you curse your brother and the others? Your brother and the others must be fine outside. Maybe they will come back soon."

"Aye, my mother, don't lie to yourself. Last time, Heizi, Aye, was blinded by one of his men and fled back in the war. Didn't he just say that many of the strong men captured by Chengde were exhausted, and many of them ran away? Staying there was death, and escaping was also death. Now that the brothers have not come back, they must have died long ago. You can wake up. How many of the people who went out of our village and our village have returned? But this damn government still collects grain and taxes. No matter whether we live or die, we will starve to death if we don't steal or rob."

Zhao Fugui was so angry that he shivered: "You bastard are still right? You are a soldier who robbed the government and are still a group of soldiers. Are you afraid of death slow and want to help take the whole village together on the road?"

Zhuzi simply stopped talking to his father, "Aye, whatever you want, my four brothers have left and never come back. My father only has one leg. In addition to his married sister, the third sister at home is still a woman. I am the only man in our family, and I can't watch the whole family starve to death. Besides, those who are in the army have nothing good to do. It's better than bandits."

Zhao Fugui was so angry that he reached out and wanted to touch the crutches again. "I killed you little bastard. You are only twelve years old. When will you be the leader of my family?" Zhao Wang hurriedly held Zhao Fugui's hand tightly, "The leader, the leader, if you have something to say, why did you move the real guy come?"

"Go and invite the old Hei brothers over, I can't help but the little bastard." Zhao Fugui sighed.

When Zhao Fugui and Zhao Laohei were young, they were both famous young men from all over the countryside. They worked as partners for pharmacies in the county and learned how to speak of "not" with the doctor in the hall. Later, when they grew older, they followed the boss's medicinal materials purchase caravans together. Every year, they went to Daibei and even outside the border to collect medicinal materials and fur goods. They walked outside the pass, were diligent on the road, and studied art seriously with the caravan's guards. Over the past ten years, the two of them were more civil and military, and they were more reliable in their work, so they were very trusted by the boss.

Later one year, the caravan was attacked by bandits outside, and the two finally managed to escape back with their boss. After they came back, the boss was no longer able to do so. The boss had no son. Before he died, he handed over the medicine shop to a brother of his family and gave them a sum of money to let them go back to their hometown to buy some land to live on their own.

After returning to the countryside, Fugui and Lao Hei built land and built houses, married and had children, and lived a good life for a while. However, since Emperor Yizong was in power, life was getting worse and worse. When Zi ascended the throne today, life was getting backwards. A few years ago, Fugui and Lao Hei were both enlisted as strong men, but Fugui's leg was broken. Later, Lao Hei also blinded his eyes.

At this time, Lao Hei sat on the chair and sighed: "Zhuzi, I heard that you and a group of dolls in the village have snatched the soldiers. Is this the case?"

Zhuzi was always afraid of Lao Hei, especially when Lao Hei came back with a blind eye, he became more and more afraid. He always felt that although Lao Hei didn't say harsh words, he swept his eyes to someone and there was a sense of evil spirit. He lowered his head and replied, "Brother Hei, if this happens, I and Brother Heizi are the leader."

Zhao Laohei sighed to the sky: "Alas, heaven is a man-made disaster, the world is difficult, this is fine. What's even more hateful is that officials are unjust, vassal states and chaotic people, and fish and meat villages. Everyone can't survive. It's understandable that they do something extraordinary..."

Zhao Fugui sat aside, "Brother Hei, I don't understand the affairs of the government, but Zhuzi and the others did this, isn't this causing trouble for Zhuzi? These little bastards are too brave. A few children in their teens, with a few little babies who are still snot all day long, dare to steal dozens of soldiers. I just saw that all the soldiers had tall horses and were dressed very neatly. They didn't look like Chengde's soldiers, but like the soldiers on the north side. We can't afford to provoke the soldiers in the north. The Shatu people in Daibei and the Uighurs in Chengde, they can't beat them."

Lao Hei rubbed the blind eye. Although there was only one eye socket left there, he always felt that there was an eyeball there, and it felt sore. After rubbing it a few times, his eyes felt a little more comfortable. He looked at the sword again and sighed, "Yes, this day is so sad. Since Zi ascended the throne today, Hebei has been fighting for wars for seven or eight years, and the days of fighting have been getting harder and harder day by day. Droughts, floods, snowstorms, locust plagues, military plagues, bandit plagues, but the tax collection of grain and taxes in the feudal towns has not been reduced, and it is more than a year. It is often levyed, and it is always levyed..."

Another man in the village who had broken his hand interrupted, "Brother Hei, you don't know yet. Something big happened. I heard that the north had been fought. The army of 800,000 was launched a few days ago. In a few days, I heard that 18 counties had been captured. More than 50,000 people died in Chengde's army, and blood flowed into a river. Now the Qin army is from the foot of Taihang Mountain in the west to the canal in the east, and the north is full of troops. Chengde's army is defeated like a mountain. There are even thousands or thousands surrounded and surrendered directly. The Qin army has not stopped yet."

"Hey, at the beginning of the year, people from the county came to collect the last seeds and grains at home. This winter, our village starved to death by more than 50 times. The Changshun family in the west of Zhuang did not pay the food. The fifteen-year-old daughter was arrested for repayment. As a result, the baby was hit by the head of the village, and then the Changshun family jumped into an ice hole together. Alas, if Chengde tribes do this, sooner or later, they will be punished, and they will be beaten to the north. It is exactly what suits the people's hearts."

"Not good!" Lao Hei's face suddenly changed, "Isn't the little bastards robbed soldiers from the north?"

When everyone in the room was shocked when they thought of this possibility.

They are not afraid of Chengde Town, but they have been in despair in life under Chengde Town over the years. At this time, they have already given up and fearless. Anyway, if this continues, it will be difficult for everyone to survive next spring, so they will rob them. If they want to die, they will be a full devil.

But if you rob the wrong person and the Qin army is robbing it, it will be different.

"Go and have a look. If it really comes from the north, you have to be released immediately." Lao Hei gritted his teeth.

"But if we really came from the north, we have offended them. If we let them go, can we let us go?"

"What else can I do? I can only ask them to be kind and kind. I heard that the army in the north is completely different from those in ours. It would be fine if we live for most of our lives. But there are so many children in the village and they are still young. There are still many men in our village who have been conquered, and they are still hoping that one day they can rely on the people in the north to rescue them. Let the whole village move!" Lao Hei said.

A group of Zhuangmen who had not yet starved to death came out of the cold and dilapidated village. Most of them were elderly people and women, and a few young and strong men were disabled by blind eyes, broken hands and feet, and most of them were disabled on the battlefield. This became luck for them, because they were disabled and had a great chance to return home.

They faced the cold wind, their hearts were filled with expectations and worries.

They expected that the group of soldiers by the river would come from the north. In that case, it would mean that they had really attacked. Maybe they could get rid of the current desperate life of dire straits and bring them the legendary good life. But they were also afraid that those people were soldiers from the north, but they offended them.

The village was not far from the river bank. When they finally walked to the river bank, they were shocked to find that only Heizi and a group of children were left on the river bank, surrounded by a pile of wooden boxes, stunned.

"Brother Heizi, where are those people?" Zhuzi ran over, and Zhao Laohei and the others followed him.

"Let's go, they're gone!" The thin and thin black man looked at the white ice surface and dazed out of his mind.

"What is this?" someone asked, pointing to the pile of wooden boxes.

"It's canned food, canned pork, canned chicken, canned beef, canned fish, canned beans, and flour..." Erya shouted loudly, only halfway through her words, but she had forgotten the names of many things in the box.

"Brother Heizi, why did you let them go?" Zhuzi was a little puzzled. He knew how valuable meat was these days. He had snatched so many meats from those who were in the army and let them go now, so they would not have to take revenge immediately after turning back. Wouldn't this be what Aye said to bring disaster to the village?

"Brother Zhuzi, Heizi didn't let them go." Erya jumped out immediately, "Those soldiers are so powerful. In just a moment, Heizi snatched the bone spurs in his hand. Those soldiers also snatched the things in our hands, but they had a good temper. They didn't beat us or scold us. Instead, after asking us some questions, they left us so much food. Look, there are so many boxes."

The thin black-skinned black-skinned black-skinned black-skinned black-skinned black-skinned army, named Guo Tao. When he was a child, his family was destroyed by war and he had been wandering as a beggar for many years." He looked up at his father Lao Hei, "Aye, what is the senior official of the deputy army leader? Is there any county magistrate?"

Zhao Laohei was also immersed in surprise. He did not expect that this group of soldiers was really the Qin army in the north, and that head was a high-ranking official. He had seen the world outside and knew very well what kind of army the Iron Cavalry Legion was. It was the army led by the world's military commander Li Jing, King Qin, and a cavalry legion of 80,000 people. Although there were infantry inside, the Iron Cavalry Legion was still the largest cavalry legion he had ever heard of. The deputy commander of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry Legion was the deputy commander who commanded 5,000 cavalry. Even if the deputy commander might rank fourth and fifth among the first army officers, it was also extremely powerful.

It is incredible that a group of wild children in Zhaozhuang actually snatched such a big officer. Now, thinking about it, the other party just doesn't want to hurt these children, otherwise how could they snatch them? Look, they didn't hurt the children, and they left such a pile of canned food before leaving. A word suddenly flashed in his heart, the King's Teacher.

He reached out and patted his son on the shoulder. He didn't know how lucky he was today.

"Son, the deputy army leader is higher than the county magistrate, the deputy army leader of the First Army of the Iron Cavalry Corps, at least equivalent to the governor Shi and Sima, and is a little lower than the governor."

"Aye, I will also join the Iron Cavalry Army."

Zhao Laohei couldn't help but chuckled, "Wait until you learn how to ride a horse first, you can ride a donkey now, and the Iron Cavalry Legion is all cavalry."

Zhao Fugui also pulled his child, Zhuzi, and stood on the river bank, feeling a lot of emotion, "Brother Hei, we will be Qin Fan from now on, right?"

"Yes!" Zhao Laohei nodded solemnly.
Chapter completed!