Wandao long distance

Chapter 170 Mortals
Fang Cuiyuan curled up on the uncomfortable floor, the wind was blowing all around, it was chilly, and she kept curling up in the cold.

The little girl tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

If it was before, the mother would put a quilt on her and blame her for not covering it well.

It's a pity that I don't have a mother now.

It was too cold to sleep, so Fang Cuiyuan had no choice but to get up.

Her father was a hunter, and Fang Cuiyuan remembered that he said when he was drunk before that in the mountains, when it was too cold to sleep at night, don't sleep, or else you will get seriously ill, or you won't be able to wake up again.

The companion who went hunting with them in the mountains died for this reason.

It's just that tonight is a little strange.

First, the sergeants came to drive them away and asked them to change their formation so that everyone besieged the city in a circle.

10 people form a ring, which is quite spectacular, but they don't know what it's for.

However, she always feels that staying in this ring will make her feel more comfortable. She has always been in poor health, and she is most afraid of the cold. She heard from her mother that she caught a cold when she was just born, so she has a weak constitution, deficiency of yang fire, and coughs when she is cold. .

But when I was inside this ring, although it was cold, I didn't cough, which was amazing.

She sat on the ground, wrapped her body in the only thick cloth, and looked not far away.

There were sergeants standing guard there, and during the day today, these sergeants risked their lives to protect them. She was behind and saw with her own eyes that the young sergeant who was still greeting her during the day was torn to pieces by the demon.

If it weren't for them, I and others really don't know what to do.

demon……

This time, there were six to seven hundred people in the village, only a few dozen survived the monster attack.

The whole family is gone, parents, younger brother, elder brother, only she is still alive.

Thinking of this, she lowered her head.

However, the tears couldn't come out.

At the beginning, I washed my face with tears, as if I was going to cry blind.

But now, I can't cry anymore.

Heartache, sadness, seems to have a limit.

It was so heartbreaking at the beginning, and I thought it would be unforgettable for a lifetime, but it has only been a few days, and I don't even feel much.

This may be called heartless.

Now that I think about it, it seems like that's the case.

Except for the occasional burst of soreness when I am in a daze, it seems to be nothing.

just like--

just now.

In the past, when I was outside looking at the moon with a quilt on, my elder brother would come up and scold her when he saw it, and let her go back to the room, because she was not in good health all the time.

Think about this.

My heart tugged.

It seemed that it was difficult to breathe.

Just can't cry.

Can't cry.

Sourness and depression are stuck in my heart, but I can't cry.

It's like the second uncle's house next door in the past.

She's seen it before.

The son of the second uncle's family, his cousin, was climbing a tree in the yard to pick dates to play, and accidentally fell from the tree and fell into the water tank.

The tank was too deep and the edges were slippery, unable to climb out and drowned.

The second aunt was crying in the dark, but the second uncle just kept his face dark and kept saying to the second aunt that there would be another one at worst, another at worst.

At that time, she still felt that the second uncle had a big heart, but she didn't feel it at all.

Just, think about it now.

In fact, it's not that I don't feel it.

Just can't cry.

It suddenly occurred to her that at that time, she ran out secretly wrapped in a quilt as before, and saw the second uncle holding a stone at night, circling around the water tank.

He took the stone and tried again and again, but finally gave up, so he smashed the stone to the ground, and then squatted next to the water tank and smoked.

After all, buying a new tank is not cheap.

Thinking wildly in his mind, at this time, an old farmer came to the side and squatted beside Fang Cuiyuan: "Cuiyuan, why aren't you asleep?"

This old man's skin is rough, and the joints of his limbs are particularly thick. It can be seen that he has done a lot of heavy work, and his hands are covered with layers of calluses.

"Ah, Second Uncle, I can't sleep." Fang Cuiyuan raised her head and saw Second Uncle coming to her side.

This is the second uncle.

This time, he was just like himself, he was the only one left in the family.

The newborn's two cousins, as well as the second aunt, were all eaten by demons this time.

"It's okay to cry, don't be really sad, anyway, life is still going on, our old Fang's family is left with the two of us now, you are my niece, don't be afraid, the elder brother is dead, there is nothing left Second brother? With my uncle here, you won't be hungry." The old man smiled and said to Fang Cuiyuan, who was chattering.

"Hmm...Second Uncle, where are we going? Did those soldiers say anything?" Fang Cuiyuan asked.

"I went to ask. They said that they would escort us to Baiding Mountain. They said that there are few people there and there is still a lot of wasteland, which is enough for us to plant. When the time comes, I will build another house. It’s better if I’m tired. Tens of hundreds of acres of land, and I will find you a good family, give birth to a few children, you will adopt one to be my grandson, let him be surnamed Fang, pass on the incense, and it will be considered rooted." The old man smashed Mouth, Fang Cuiyuan said.

"People are far away from home... No matter how few people there are, there are other people. Let's just move there. Is it going so smoothly?" Fang Cuiyuan asked worriedly.

The future that the second uncle said was too stable and wonderful, so she was a little worried.

"A hundred thousand people, if he doesn't let us drop, we won't drop? We have to live, we have to eat, there is always a way." The old man said indifferently, with a bachelor's expression on his face.

"How long will it take to go to Baiding Mountain?"

"I don't know, but those soldiers said that before they arrive, they will all be fed and not afraid of starvation, so as long as they don't get sick on the road, they are not afraid of anything else." The old man said.

Speaking of this, he seemed to have suddenly thought of what he was here for, stood up quickly, and took out a bundle of wrapped blankets: "By the way, I was afraid that you would be sick and weak, so I brought you a blanket. "

"At that time, the monsters came quickly and time was tight. I didn't have much time to get things, so I grabbed some copper coins and this blanket. Your aunt bought it. The fur one was his grandma's. It cost me more than 100 yuan and more than 20 acres. The land's half-year harvest is gone like this."

"She's not lucky, she can't enjoy good things, and it's gone two days after she bought it. Here it is for you. Both of us take care of our own lives. We are the only ones left in the old Fang's family. I'm old, and the incense of our ancestors But it's up to you, don't delay." The old man couldn't help but stuff the fur blanket to Fang Cuiyuan.

Fang Cuiyuan wanted to decline, but the second uncle gave it to her directly, and then left without looking back, not knowing what he would do tonight.

At this moment, the moon is on the treetops, and it is already the middle of the night.

Shen Shuibiti stalked the silver-haired mouse, but couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time.

So she simply gave up and went to sleep.

Silent all night.

However, including the sergeant, there are more than [-] people, many of whom cannot sleep.

This road, I do not know how many people will die on the road.

On the second day, Li Qi and Zhang Lan had already woken up, and Li Qi's consumption had replenished a bit. Although he hadn't fully recovered, the small world of his body was able to generate some energy by itself, so it was no longer so empty.

As for Zhang Lan, I don't know. Li Qi doesn't have a deep understanding of martial arts, he doesn't understand his roots, so he naturally doesn't know what he relies on to recover.

And the lieutenant general temporarily elected by the White Rhinoceros Army also approached Li Qi early.

Holding a steaming basket, he came forward to say hello: "Mr. Li, Mr. Zhang, are you two resting okay? And this one..."

"Shen, her surname is Shen." Li Qi said.

"Miss Shen." The deputy general said respectfully, and then opened the basket, which contained some dried meat, rice, and boiled green leafy vegetables, all of which seemed to be freshly picked.

It looked like the best they could prepare under the current conditions.

"Let's eat something in the morning to deal with it. There is no cook in the army. The cook cooks it casually. Please forgive me." He was a little embarrassed.

Zhang Lan was careless: "It's okay, I haven't eaten in the open air, and there is still meat here, it's enough."

Li Qi nodded: "Eating and drinking are not important, the lives of more than one hundred thousand people are more important, does the general have any arrangements?"

The three of them didn't pay attention to anything, they sat cross-legged, only Shen Shuibi declined the invitation to eat, and ran to the side instead, writing and drawing on the ground, as if calculating something.

"Don't worry about her, her skills are amazing, she doesn't need to eat or drink, and she has a cold personality and doesn't like mundane affairs, so don't bother me, let's just talk." Seeing the other two people not holding chopsticks, Li Qi took the initiative He picked up the cutlery, took a bite and put it in his mouth, and said with a smile.

Now that Li Qi has done this, the other two let go and started to eat separately.

The food is not good, ordinary jerky is chopped and boiled, then the wild vegetables are boiled in water, and the millet is boiled, almost all of them are boiled, and then seasoned with salt.

"Two gentlemen, the most urgent thing to solve should be military rations. The White Rhinoceros Army originally had 500 people, and now it has 340 people. According to the past, each person received three liters of rice a day, and an army received 350 shi a day. Previously The military rations are paid on a monthly basis, and there are still seven thousand shi left in the military rations."

"These people are no better than us big-bellied men. They can go up once a day, but they can't last for a few days. Even if they are under control, they can only support them at most. From here to Baiding Mountain, there is no one inhabited anywhere. There is only one mountain in the middle." In Guangyang City, if we drive the people there to get supplies, it will take about ten days, and some of them will definitely starve to death in the middle, this is the most important thing at the moment, can the two gentlemen have a solution?"

"Where do you hide your military supplies?" Li Qi asked.

"Among the mustard bags, there are some special mustard bags in the army." The lieutenant general said.

"I have a dragon colt. If it is Guangyang City, I can arrive there in five hours. I also have a mustard bag. Give me your mustard bag and give me a proof. I will go to Guangyang City." Just ask for food." Li Qi said.

Zhang Lan immediately clapped his hands: "It's so good, I'm still worried, if I go to ask for food, if there is another monster attacking and no one is guarding, then it will be a big problem. Brother Li has a dragon colt, and the speed is not as fast as ours." Slow down, leaving will not affect the overall battle strength, there are still two eighth ranks, but they can be well protected."

Li Qi listened with black lines on his face.

This old man is a bit too honest, can he speak, what is meant by leaving does not affect the overall situation of the battle, anyway, he is also the third strongest here.

Second only to the two rank-[-] officers, the other rank-[-] officers are basically not his all-in-one enemy.

But the words are rough and the rationale is not rough, no matter how strong it is, it is still a rank nine, and it has limited performance on a large-scale battlefield.

The military is not a mob.

If it's just more than 1 low-rank reckless men, with a few ninth-rank sporadically mixed in, Li Qi may be injured due to exhaustion, and if he is careless, he may even overturn his car, but at the very least, he will be able to bleed the blood of the opponent.

But if it is an army of more than 1, led by more than a dozen ninth-rank officers, the situation will be different.

If Li Qi confronts the White Rhinoceros army head-on right now, it will be difficult for him to shake the opponent's military spirit with all his means, and it will be difficult for him to even run, and he will only be rushed up and hacked to death by the opponent.

This is the difference between a well-trained iron army and a mob.

Such an army, with a command, a military flag, and relying on the power of the soldiers, can forcibly overwhelm the eight ranks.

In the previous battle, the eagle-headed demon could break Zhang Lan's supernatural power by arousing the spirit of the demon soldiers below, which was enough to show its power.

It is indeed more appropriate for Li Qi to ride a dragon horse to transport food.

"Ahem, leave the matter of transporting food to me. Can the general give me a certificate?" He coughed, suppressed his embarrassment, and then said to the lieutenant general.

The lieutenant understood this, and handed a roll of cloth to Li Qi: "This is one of our military flags, and it cannot be handed over to others easily. It is the face of the White Rhinoceros Army. Take it, sir, and the Sima of Guangyang City will naturally know about it." You are not a liar."

"The matter of military rations can be solved. The second thing is, which way are we going to go to Baiding Mountain?" The deputy general took out another military map and unfolded it in front of everyone.

These matters, the officers did not decide privately, but discussed with Li Qi and Zhang Lan.

Over the course of the morning, the three of them finally finalized the big and small details.

Zhang Lan is still in charge of guarding the military equipment, and the military affairs are still left to the original officers. The task assigned to Li Qi is simpler, that is, to ask for military rations.

As for Shen Shuibi, she can move freely and do whatever she wants, and no one arranges anything for her.

The affairs of the common people have also been arranged one by one, and the army is responsible for it, and some prestigious people such as village elders are recruited to help manage it.

In short, after everything was arranged, Li Qi was ready to go.

Pulling on the old horse and preparing to leave, Shen Shuibi suddenly appeared beside Li Qi, and she asked nervously, "Um... Li Qi, can I go with you?"

Li Qi said with a smile: "I'm going to the big city of the human race, what can I do? You have advanced cultivation and strong combat power. It's better to stay here to protect the people."

"Oh..." Although Shen Shuibi agreed, she was obviously a bit dull.

"It's only ten hours back and forth, even if there is a delay, at most I will be back tomorrow, so don't worry." Li Qi comforted.

It's not too late, go early and come back early, it's only ten hours.

It's impossible to never go back.

(End of this chapter)