Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 74

Six months later
Shouchun City

The king of Huainan has been besieged for six months, and the Han army outside the city has never dared to attack the city.

……

First Day

squeak-

An ancient wooden house was opened, and a pretty girl walked out.

"Miss Fu, good morning...good morning..." across the street, a young man shyly greeted her.

"Good morning." The girl Fu Xiaozhu responded softly to the shy young man. She naturally knew how much he thought about her, but she didn't care.

Because she also had a good impression of the young man, but her parents refused to agree. Her parents thought she was pretty. It would be a pity if she married a commoner. It is the best future to be married to a young master from a powerful family and become the wife of a young master from a powerful family.

"Xiaozhu, pour water." At this time, Fu Xiaozhu's mother gave her instructions while squeezing the bean curd residue.

Since King Huainan invented tofu, there have been many small vendors making tofu and selling tofu in Shouchun City, such as Fu Xiaozhu's family.

Their family is considered a rich farmer. The family of three owns [-] mu of land and runs a tofu shop in the city. They are living relatively well among the self-cultivating farmers.

Moreover, his father was a senior officer in the king's army, so the status of the Fu family was slightly higher than that of ordinary farmers, and no neighbors dared to bully their orphan mother and widow.

At this time, several soldiers hung a piece of linen on the wall in front of Fu Xiaozhu's house, with many words written on the linen.

Fu Xiaozhu had never read a book, so he couldn't understand the words on it. He just saw that after these soldiers pasted the linen, they went to other places to continue posting.

"The Emperor Qin was tyrannical and mutilated all the people... work together." At this time, a literate military officer told the people what was written on the sackcloth.

"Hehe, even at this point of life and death, Your Majesty still doesn't dare to call Emperor Liu Che by his first name, and just uses Emperor Qin to point fingers and scold Huai as before." Someone who understands the current situation shook his head and mocked.

But the officer and the soldiers didn't seem to hear it, and didn't care. They heard too many complaints like this and couldn't handle it.

The king himself has no determination to resist, so what about us common people?
Even Fu Xiaozhu, a young girl beside him, felt that King Huainan was too cowardly. Either don't rebel, and if you want to rebel, kill decisively. He hesitates like this, and dare not go against it to the end. It's just weakness and incompetence.

……

The fifth day

tata tao~
Fu Xiaozhu, who was mending holes in the tattered linen clothes inside the house, heard the sound of many horseshoes outside, so he opened the door, but saw a group of Huainan soldiers on horseback supporting each other dejectedly, and many soldiers were injured.

Fu Xiaozhu looked towards the soldiers, but couldn't see his father.

She knew that these soldiers were going out to rob food, because she heard that the food in the city had already been eaten, and the soldiers could only take the risk of going out through the west gate deliberately left by the Han army to rob the people in the villages outside the city. Her officer father was one of them. .

However, they seem to be failing...

"Where's my husband?" Fu Xiaozhu's mother looked for her officer husband among the soldiers in a daze.

"As soon as we left the city, we were ambushed by the Han army. A Sima in the Han army named Wang Changyu ambushed us. Many people died in battle, but we were the only ones who managed to escape back to the city." A soldier explained that this soldier was the young man. A few days ago, he was dragged out of the army and forced to serve as a soldier. He followed these veterans out of the city to grab food just four days after he joined the army.

"Husband!!!" "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo——"

Fu Xiaozhu's mother cried and trembled in despair, and then passed out.

"Mother!" Fu Xiaozhu supported her mother, and was at a loss for what to do. She, a little girl, suffered such a drastic change. The pillar of the family, the only man, the officer's father, was ambushed and died by the Han army when he went out of the city to grab food. .

……

tenth day

Boom!Boom!Boom!
The door of Fu Xiaozhu's house was knocked on.

"Open the door!" "If we don't open the door, we will force our way in!"

The people outside the door shouted hurriedly.

Fu Xiaozhu was very scared. Fu Xiaozhu's mother lay on the couch with a pale face and said to her, "Tang'er, open the door."

squeak-

There was no other way, Fu Xiaozhu opened the door and saw several soldiers, among them was her childhood sweetheart boy.

I saw a few more scars on the young man's face, and the whole person lacked the youthful heroism, but instead showed a lot of vicissitudes and cruelty.

I heard that the veterans in the barracks often abused the recruits. Could it be that he is?

Seeing the young man's change, Fu Xiaozhu thought in his heart.

"Where do you keep your family's food? Your Majesty collects food!"

A small military officer headed by Xiaozhu said coldly.

"I, I..." Fu Xiaozhu was very frightened, and took a few steps back, her little face turned pale with fright.

"Hmph!" The little officer snorted coldly, and then ordered the soldiers behind him: "Search for grain! Don't let a grain of grain go!"

"promise!"

Boom!clang!Ding!
The soldiers rummaged through Fu Xiaozhu's house, searching every corner, and even dragged Fu Xiaozhu's mother out of the apartment, and opened the mat to see if there was any food hidden.

"Can you stop levying our family's food..." Fu Xiaozhu looked at the young man and prayed to him with two lines of tears.

It’s fine if the father died outside the city without receiving pensions, but now the orphans and widows are forced to confiscate surplus food. If all the food is confiscated, what will their mother and daughter eat?
"I'm sorry..." The young man seemed very helpless, he also had to obey the military order, and searched more carefully for the food in Fu Xiaozhu's house.

"Found it!" A soldier found the place where Fu Xiaozhu's family hid grain.

"No! You can't confiscate my family's food, our mother and daughter will starve to death!" Fu Xiaozhu's mother dragged her sick body to protect the food.

Snapped!
The officer slapped Fu Xiaozhu's mother directly, and said indifferently: "The Han army is besieging the city, and the army is short of food. You are all His Majesty's subjects, and you should dedicate everything to His Majesty, even your lives belong to His Majesty, let alone Some food."

After finishing speaking, he ordered several other soldiers: "Take all the food away, and those who stop the food requisition will be regarded as treason and killed immediately!"

"No!" The young man agreed, and then cruelly dragged Fu Xiaozhu's food out of the pot.

"No! No!——" Fu Xiaozhu's mother tore at the boy's trousers, but...

boom!
The young man seemed to have completely transformed. He was no longer the shy and innocent boy he was back then, but turned into a demon, who even kicked Fu Xiaozhu's mother away.

"Mother!!! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-" The timid Fu Xiaozhu did not dare to stop the soldiers from forcibly collecting surplus food, and could only cry and hug his mother who kept vomiting blood.

The soldiers left, and Fu Xiaozhu's house was in a mess.

"Mother... woo woo woo—"

Holding his mother and crying bitterly, Fu Xiaozhu saw outside the door, many soldiers were searching for leftover food from other people's homes, and the streets were full of people begging not to requisition food.

"Leave us some rations, please, woo woo woo—"

"Give me back our food, bastard!!!"

"If you don't give us a way to survive, I will fight with you!"

"Stop those who collect food, kill them immediately! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"promise!"

"kill!"

"what--"

"No, don't kill me! Ah——"

A middle-aged man grabbed a soldier's arm, trying to get back food, but was stabbed to death by another soldier.

There was also a child who stood in the way of the soldiers, was kicked to the ground by the officer, and then trampled to death.

Huainan, the capital of the kings who used to be rich, seems to be falling into hell.

Dozens of unbearable civilians rushed towards the soldiers with bare hands.

Tread-tap-

呲——

"what--"

"You're going to die! Ugh—"

A group of Huainan national cavalry charged from the street and slaughtered all the rebellious civilians. The heads of the rebellious civilians were beheaded for military merit.

(End of this chapter)