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Chapter 532 Mother, where is brother going!

The sky is dark, and the snow is not falling. Only the bonfires lit everywhere bring people a little warmth.

On an open field in the northwestern corner of Kaifeng City in the formation of official and military vehicles, hundreds of hungry people sat around piles of bonfires, and they shared a porridge bowl.

The cauldron on top of the bonfire was steaming hot, and the thick rice porridge gave off an attractive aroma. The hungry people around were all greedily looking at the cauldron, waiting for the porridge bowl to be delivered to them.

A few hungry people are holding rough steamed buns strung together with thin wooden branches, and they are roasting by the campfire. Seeing these frozen steamed buns gradually melt and become soft, the eyes of the hungry people are full of greed. shine.

A hungry man stretched out his hand to pinch the steamed buns, feeling that it was time to bake them, so he took them off one by one and distributed them to the hungry people around him. He only kept one on the thin wooden branch, but he was reluctant to take it off. , but put the finger that just took the steamed bun into his mouth and lick it.

They were all hungry people who were forced by the bandits to charge into the car formation this afternoon. They survived the bursts of gunfire, but they did not turn back and escape to the bandits.

Instead, they fled in all directions, and there were many starving people like Liu Chengzu who could no longer run and could only fall to the ground waiting to die, but it was not the god of death who greeted them!

For them, officers and soldiers are actually not much different from bandits. Often officers and soldiers are even more vicious than bandits. Not only do they rob property, they even use their heads as bandit leaders to pretend to be military leaders.

Therefore, through their own efforts in the hands of the bandits, these hungry people may still have a chance to survive. If the god of luck favors them, they will not die after several sieges, and finally they will be able to join the team of bandits.

But the officers and soldiers they encountered today were different!
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Liu Chengzu was originally determined to stay with his wife Chen Xiuniang and daughter Chen Nannan. His only hope was that his daughter would have a chance to survive, so he hid her daughter in the pit under his chest.

But the officers and soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield after the war found their family of three. Although Liu Chengzu and the others were weak and weak, they did not make things difficult for them. They just detained them together with hundreds of captured hungry people.

Because the officers and soldiers had to register their names, places of origin and other information one by one, someone needed to assist them. Therefore, when a black and strong officer and soldier came to ask if anyone could read, Liu Chengzu timidly registered.

Unexpectedly, this group of officers and soldiers was not vicious at all. After registering information such as names, places of origin, and skills that each person is good at, they were all led to the piles of burning bonfires.

After arranging the responsible leaders of each campfire, they set up a big pot to cook rice porridge, and even brought buckets of thick noodle buns. It can be eaten after roasting and roasting, and it is enough to eat.

All these hungry people were so excited that they burst into tears, and many of them knelt on the ground to kowtow to the officers and soldiers who came to deliver grain and steamed buns.

Because Liu Chengzu helped the officers and soldiers register the information of the hungry people and set up accounts, not only did they also have porridge to drink and steamed buns to eat, but also specially designated this temporary wooden shed for their family to live in.

Although the wooden shed is simple, it can still shelter some wind and rain. They spread some hay in a corner inside, and there are half-old cotton mattresses given by the officers and soldiers on it. There is also a bonfire in the middle. It is barely enough for people to keep warm.

Chen Xiuniang hugged her daughter Nannan in her arms, and after cooking the bonfire for a long time, her complexion became much ruddy. She drank two sips of rice porridge, and asked timidly, "Mother, where did brother go!"

Chen Xiuniang's hand holding the porridge bowl shook, and the warm rice porridge spilled onto her cold hands, but she didn't notice it at all, she just raised her head and looked at Liu Chengzu with blank eyes.

With tears in Liu Chengzu's eyes, he handed over two steamed buns that were already warm with his big, dirty hands, but he didn't say a word.

Chen Xiuniang tried her best not to let the tears roll down, she freed one hand to take the two buns, handed one of them to Nannan, and said in a soft voice with a slight choke: "Brother is going to play, Nannan eats first." Momo."

"Can my brother come back tonight?"

Chen Xiuniang didn't know how to answer. She turned her head and looked at her husband Liu Chengzu again, only to see him squatting down and adding two more firewood to the campfire. He looked at the fire and said softly, "Yes. I can come back..."

"Cough...cough cough...cough cough cough..."

The fire flashed, and the wooden blocks crackled in the bonfire. It may be that the added wooden blocks were stained with snow water, and there was some dampness. A puff of thick smoke spewed out. rolled down by the fire.

Not far away, several officers and soldiers came towards this side, Liu Chengzu's eyes were already blurred, and he could only see some figures faintly.

"Si'er...is Si'er..."

Although Chen Xiuniang choked up and called softly, the words fell like pearls in Liu Chengzu's heart. He could no longer control his emotions, his shoulders trembled uncontrollably, and tears fell like rain.

"Brother, it's my brother Sijie!"

Liu Nannan's weak voice was like a thunderbolt, and Liu Chengzu, who had already lost all strength, stood up suddenly. He rubbed his eyes vigorously with both hands, and in a haze, he saw that there was a half-grown man beside the officers and soldiers walking over there. child.

"Sijie, it's my Sijie!"

It was only when the officers and soldiers got closer that he realized that the child was the son he missed so much—Liu Sijie.

Only an officer of the officers and soldiers yelled loudly: "Liu Chengzu, come out and have a look, do you know this kid?"

Liu Chengzu's lips trembled, and he couldn't speak for a while, he muttered: "I...my..."

It was the boy who shook off the hands of the officers and soldiers, rushed to hug Liu Chengzu, and cried, "Father..."

He knelt on the ground with tears and mud all over his face, and cried again: "Grandpa Fu...Grandpa Fu..."

The officer of the officers and soldiers came up and said, "Since they are your family members, let's stay with you."

He then waved his hands back, and continued, "This kid is lucky, but that old man won't be so lucky."

Two officers and soldiers carried a stretcher slowly into the wooden shed and put it down, only to see an old man lying on it, with a thin and pale face, obviously inhaling less and exhaling more.

The team officer said again: "This old man is also tough, but he doesn't know what it has to do with you. Even with two broken legs, he can still climb to the front of our barracks."

He paused and said: "He and this child only read your name. It's also appropriate for your family to reunite. There are hundreds of hungry people, and our general remembers your name."

After the team officer finished speaking, he ordered someone to bring in a set of old cotton mattresses and some old clothes, and said: "Go ahead tonight, my general will see you tomorrow."

Before leaving, he also confessed: "This old man, the military medical officer in our camp has shown him, whether he can live or not depends on these few days!"

(End of this chapter)