total war broken

Chapter 4 Imagination under the night sky
The old man leading the team looked at the darkening sky, raised his head and said, "Okay, let's stay here. Everyone will get up and go on the road tomorrow."

Refugees who stopped walking started to stop one after another, wearing rags
Some lay on the ground, dug up the weeds on the ground, and began to eat the grass roots.

Xiao Chuan looked at the scene in a daze, feeling unspeakable in his heart, these people with smudged faces and yellow hair started to walk around one after another, looking for the big tree, and then started to push the bark away.The feeling of the sunset, the setting sun sets off the group of people eating grass roots and bark.

They wore tattered and dirty common clothes that could not see their original color. Some had a few patches on their clothes, and some had black clothes that were torn and had not been mended. The difference, they bent down to look for it, grass roots and bark, doing this with expressions of enjoyment.

Ogawa suddenly thought about why the butcher who raised his butcher knife against this nation could conquer this land, and why the people here would revolt. They would revolt in the face of this alien invasion. Don't they love their country?But after seeing this group of people eating grass roots and tree bark, Xiaochuan figured out that the Ming Dynasty was already seriously ill. Years of disasters, abnormal weather, party strife in the court, and abnormal taxation. These reasons led to the current situation. This group of people eating grass roots and bark.I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart. This loser had never seen such a scene before.

Chen Xiangyi glanced at Xiao Chuan next to him, looked at his dull expression, smiled helplessly, and said, "My lord, there is no need to lament, this is a troubled world."

"Hey, brother, it's not as good as it used to be. It's good to have tree bark and grass roots to eat. Let's just let it go." After Wang Youcai finished speaking, he found a tree and began to buckle the bark.

"Let's eat grass roots and bark too." Xiao Chuan's tone softened a little. Do you want to eat grass roots and bark too?Eating this will fill you up, but you won't be able to replenish energy at all. You will definitely not be able to live in Shandong if you eat this, but there is no other way, you can only make do with it.

He and Chen Xiangyi came under a big tree, looking at this stout uncle and the smell of nature on the tree made him feel a little comfortable.

I think of a paper I read in my previous life, which said that the bark is actually edible and nutritious, but it is unpalatable.Forget it, I am a refugee anyway, and survival is the most important thing.

Next to her, Chen Xiangyi skillfully peeled away a piece of bark, picked the dry part on it, and put it in her mouth to chew. Her movements were very graceful, and she chewed slowly even when eating the bark.

Xiaochuan also put it in his mouth, and an indescribable bitter taste came. It was bitter and difficult to chew. At this moment, Xiaochuan scolded the corrupt officials who embezzled the food for the disaster relief ten thousand times, and said: "Fuck, these are the people who kill a thousand people." Corrupt officials, damn it, if they weren’t corrupt, I wouldn’t be here chewing tree bark.”

"Luo Luo" Chen Xiangyi laughed when she heard Xiao Chuan scolding her so much, she felt a lot more relaxed, and said, "Look at your hands are so slender, without a single callus, maybe your family is one of these officials."

"Go, no way, if I was an official, would I still come to eat this bark?" Xiao Chuan rolled her eyes, continued to eat the bark, and said curiously: "Sister Xiangyi, you must have been the wife of a rich family in the past." Bar"

"I..." Chen Xiangyi said with a trace of nostalgia in her eyes, "I used to be just an ordinary young peasant woman, but then there was a famine, my husband's family starved to death, and I also came out to escape."

Oh, young peasant woman, looking at her white and tender hands, Xiao Chuan didn't believe that she was a young peasant woman, but she didn't want to say it, and Xiao Chuan couldn't ask.

Xiao Chuan suddenly heard a coughing sound, but it was the younger brother of the rout who kept coughing, as if he had some internal injuries, but the older brother was helping his younger brother to pick up the grass roots. Xiao Chuan looked at them a little strangely, why did this younger brother see Looks like it's hurt?
"Go to bed when you're full, Xiao Chuan," Wang Youcai said with a smile, and then he found a big tree and fell asleep.

The group of refugees began to sleep on the ground after eating the grass roots and bark. .

Under a bright moon, a group of people fell to the ground and began to fall asleep.

Xiao Chuan just wanted to have a conversation with Wang Youcai, asking him something about the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect that this guy was already sound asleep and started snoring.

Chen Xiangyi found a bigger poplar tree, and sat down slowly with some difficulty. Xiao Chuan hurried over and held her arm. Her body that looked a little plump was very light, and it was not easy for Xiao Chuan to help her up. Very strenuous.

"Thank you." Chen Xiangyi leaned against the big tree and wiped the mud off her face. Her muddy face looked very scary under the moonlight.

Xiao Chuan also leaned against this poplar tree, looking at Chen Xiangyi at the side, Xiao Chuan was looking at a face that looked muddy on the outside, looking at her facial features, Xiao Chuan could tell from her facial features in the mud, and the snow-white Judging from his neck, this face covered in mud must be a face that is all over the country.

"Why, Xiao Chuan, do you think I'm ugly and scary?" Chen Xiangyi laughed at herself, her big eyes looked at the stars all over the sky with a hint of confusion, and looked at the young man in front of her.

"No, your face covered with mud can fool others but not me. You must be a great beauty." Xiao Chuan said confidently.

"So what if you're a beauty? How can you know that beauty is a disaster? My family would rather be born like a willow. If so, there wouldn't be so many disasters." Chen Xiangyi seemed to be remembering some bad things in the past, and there was a deep sadness in her eyes , and his legs were rolled up.

Looking at Chen Xiangyi's sad look, he must have recalled some bad memories from the past. Xiao Chuan patted her on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, the past has passed, right? There's still the future."

"Hey, son, you and I are already refugees. Whether we can survive or not is up for debate. How come?" Chen Xiangyi's eyes were full of sadness, looking at the sky full of stars, her face was full of bitterness, and said: "Even if I can escape So what about this catastrophe, in a safe place, a woman from the slave family, who is also an ominous person, how will she live?"

"It's okay, sister, you can follow me from now on." Xiao Chuan looked at her sad and sad appearance, remembering that she saved his life, and he would help her in the future, and said, "Sister, follow me from now on, I will support you" It was the first friend he met after coming to Ming Dynasty, Xiao Chuan wanted to bring her to his Baihusuo.

"Young master, a scholar, how can you be with a woman like me? I am, I am a widow, and I will bring you fame." There was a trace of inferiority in Chen Xiangyi's eyes, and she hugged herself with her slender arms, looking a little helpless help.

Xiaochuan patted her shoulder lightly and said: "What do you mean by a woman like you? Xiangyi, she is beautiful and knowledgeable. It is my honor for you to help me in the future. How can you bring losses to me?" Xiaochuan didn't I don't understand his thoughts, but I don't understand the view of widows in this era. In some rural areas, widows are considered to be unlucky and unlucky people.

"Widows like this from my family... will bring you bad luck!" Chen Xiangyi looked at Xiao Chuan with sad eyes.

"Widow?" Xiao Chuan was stunned for a while, looking at Chen Xiangyi, she seemed to understand, no wonder those refugees didn't get close to her very much, although they didn't communicate with her very much, it wasn't like Xiangyi, not only was there a gap, but there was a gap between them. With a feeling of fear and Wang Youcai's attitude towards her, Xiao Chuan looked at Xiangyi whose face was covered in mud, but couldn't see her expression, but the sadness like autumn water in those big eyes made her feel sad. Heartbroken, he said: "What's the matter with the widow? It's a feudal superstition that a man can blame a woman when he dies."

Chen Xiangyi's big eyes were full of disbelief and moved, she looked at Xiao Chuan and said, "Xiao Chuan, you really think so"

"Of course, what kind of widow?" Xiao Chuan didn't believe in the ancients' tricks, and said: "You are such a gentle and virtuous woman, it is a blessing to marry that man, if it were me, I would marry you."

Chen Xiangyi chuckled, and said with a smile: "What marriage, my family is so old, Xiao Chuan, you are still so young."

Xiaochuan smiled, if he really married Chen Xiangyi, then the other party would be a bit older, and said, "No need, sister, you can just be my accountant and help me settle the accounts." Xiaochuan understands, and Chen Xiangyi also understands a lot. And he can read and count, more than enough to be a bookkeeper.

"No way, Xiao Chuan, how can a woman from the slave family be your scholar's buddy?" Chen Xiangyi smiled, a little sadly, and said: "If the young master does not dislike the status of a widow from the slave family, let the slave family be a slave for you. You wash and cook, sweep the floor and take off your clothes, just serve you." She thought that it would be good to be a maid in the future and there would be no such disasters.

What?Seeing the sadness in her eyes, it would be an overkill for Ran to be her own servant. There were very few people who could read and write in ancient times, so it was hard to dig her into my hundred households, so her talents can't be wasted. , and enlightened her for a while, and gradually the sky became a little dark.

Chen Xiangyi, who was just about to say something, heard a soft cry, and saw that Xiao Chuan was still asleep on her lap, with a trace of saliva still on the corner of her mouth. For some reason, she felt a sense of peace that she had never felt before. The jade finger brushed Xiao Chuan's cheek, and the corner of his mouth drew a slight arc, muttering: "Young master, you can't abandon the slave family in the future." It must be the favorability increased by the system ^O^
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The first heroine, Chen Xiangyi, appears, if you want pig feet to accept her, then vote.

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