Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 867
The chief soldier answered while gnawing on the chicken legs.

"It's about ten days' journey to Jinzhou. The governor's surname is Zeng, and he is my cousin."

"The ice on the river is not thick, so it's not difficult to break the ice. I'll write a letter later, asking Governor Zeng to mobilize all the fishing boats to break the ice."

"Okay, let's do it like this." Zhu Xiangyu chewed on the chicken leg bone, sucked the bone marrow inside, and gave the general soldier an appreciative look.

The chief soldier smiled happily, feeling that this position can be regarded as saved.

After eating and drinking, the chief soldier went to write a letter.

Two letters, one addressed to the owner Wei Xuanyuan, and one addressed to Jinzhou Governor Zeng.

The letter to Wei Xuanyuan, Zhu Xiangyu, was very cautious. He was illiterate, so he asked Zeng Zongbing to correct it over and over again, and only after he was satisfied did he send the letter to the capital overnight.

After finishing these, Zhu Xiangyu yawned and went to the main room.

After fighting all night and traveling all day and night, he was also exhausted.

Just as he was taking off his outer clothes and preparing to rest, his subordinates came in to report.

"General, the owner of this family is begging outside, saying that he has nowhere to go to spend the night in his woodshed. Will the general agree?"

"Master? When General Ben is here, can they still be the masters here?" Zhu Xiangyu covered his body with a thick quilt, and muttered, "Let them die wherever they like, and if they dare to disturb General Ben's sleep, he will just kill him." gone."

"Yes, General." The subordinate went to take the order, and after a while, there were crying and cursing from outside.

"Bandits~~ You bandits, God will take care of you, His Royal Highness the Night King will take care of you'

Zhu Xiangyu was not angry when he called him a robber, but when he heard the word 'Night King', he was furious, and rushed outside and said viciously, "What the hell killed their whole family." After speaking, he quickly fell asleep.

Upon waking up the next day, Zhu Xiangyu ordered his soldiers to plunder the entire town for food, pigs and sheep were slaughtered, chickens and ducks were caught, and they continued to flee northward like locusts.

And the townspeople who were looted and emptied were dead and wounded, crying to the sky in despair.

In a remote farmer's house in Luozhou Jingshan, Aqin and Qi Hengdi stayed here last night.

They were worried that the outbreak of the war would be dangerous, so they went to the mountains to avoid danger as soon as they discussed it.

This place is surrounded by mountains and is relatively remote. They didn't notice the burning of the barracks last night, and they didn't know that the Night King sent people to look for them everywhere. They planned to go out later to inquire about the news and see the situation.

Talking about lodging, the two actually sat around the firepit all night.

All the firewood burned in the firepit was smoky.

The mountains were poor, the snowstorm came suddenly, the dry firewood had been burned long ago, and the family didn't even have a bed with thick bedding, so it was extremely poor.Emperor Qi Heng looked at the barren farmhouse and felt ashamed, he really didn't make a good emperor!
Just feeling emotional, the woman of this family came out with two bowls of hot porridge.

Embarrassedly said to them, "Miss Master, we don't have any delicious food in the mountains, so you just do what you can to fill your stomach." He said and held two bowls of porridge to Qi Hengdi and Aqin's hands one by one.

This bowl of porridge is actually potato paste, and it is probably the last food for this family.

"Auntie, can we still live at home? Is there still rice?" Where can Emperor Qi Heng eat? Feeling extremely ashamed, he put the porridge aside.

"Yes, yes, you two can rest assured to eat." The aunt said and passed the porridge to Emperor Qiheng, "I'm afraid you will be hungry and full when you go out, so go back to your hometown as soon as you are full."

She said yes, but Qi Hengdi saw a few ragged children next to him staring at the bowl of porridge with snot and hunger, obviously very hungry.

"Really?" Ah Qin asked the aunt in disbelief.

"Yes, of course, you can eat at ease." The aunt smiled, but her eyes were red, she turned around and was about to leave, when a two or three-year-old child jumped up and hugged the woman's leg.

"Mom~~ I'm hungry."

"I'm not hungry, I'll be fine in a few days." The woman picked up the child and prepared to leave.

"It will be fine in a few days? How do you say that?" Emperor Qi Heng asked strangely.

"His Highness Yewang will attack Luozhou in a few days, so we Luozhou people will be saved." The woman wiped the corners of her eyes, and there was a glint of hope in her eyes.

Emperor Qiheng couldn't help being moved when he heard this. He didn't expect that the only thing people dare to look forward to is the Night King! The court dare not look forward to it, it's so sad!
"Ma'am." Emperor Qi Heng was sad for a while, handed the bowl of porridge to the woman, and said sadly, "Are you out of food now? How long can you last?"
The woman looked at the hungry children, knowing that she couldn't hide it anymore, sobbing, "These two bowls of porridge are made from the last two potatoes in our family."

She said tears rolling down in big drops.

"If His Royal Highness the King of the Night doesn't attack Luozhou to save us soon, our whole family~~ No, the people in our entire village will have no way out."

"So just eat these two bowls of porridge, master and lady, at least it will save your lives."

"And what does it matter if we eat or not? After all, we can't rely on this little thing to save the lives of the whole family."

As the woman spoke, she insisted on pushing the porridge to Emperor Qiheng.

Emperor Qi Heng's mood was extremely sour and sad, and at the same time he blamed himself endlessly. He was the cause of the chaos in the Great Zhou Kingdom and the people's misery!
At this time, Aqin came up and hugged the child without saying a word, "Mother, we will be fine if we don't drink this porridge, but how can the child survive at such a young age?" She began to feed the porridge to the child.

Qi Hengdi also handed over the bowl of porridge to the other older children, letting them have a sip to relieve their hunger temporarily.

The woman froze there and didn't know what to do. At this time, the man who had entered the mountain early in the morning came back from the snow with a limp and a club covered in injuries.

He was tired, weak, miserable and hopeless.

"Originally, I got a deer, but who knew that only a skeleton was left after being gnawed by a hungry wolf. I originally wanted to bring those bones back to cook soup, but I never wanted to be stared at by a hungry wolf. I almost couldn't come back. .
"Oh, let's not talk~~ By the way, has His Highness the Night King attacked Luozhou yet? Is there any news?"

When he said these words, the man's eyes were full of anticipation, as if their lives could only rely on this to have a chance to survive, and that was their last hope.

"I don't know, I'll ask the child to go out and find out, eldest~~ go to the village and ask." The woman yelled at the main room as she stepped forward to support her man.

A ten-year-old boy hurriedly responded to the order, rolled and crawled in the snow, and dragged his thin body to the village.

"Guest, hurry up and warm up in the house, it's cold outside." The man looked at Emperor Qi Heng and Aqin and smiled, not knowing what to say.

Aqin quickly took out a medical bag and said to the uncle, "Uncle, you are injured, I will give you medicine."

"How precious are the medicinal materials? You don't need to use them. They will grow in a few days." The uncle declined.

But Aqin helped the woman help the uncle into the house without saying a word, treated the uncle's wound and sprinkled Jinchuang medicine.

(End of this chapter)