Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

In the kitchen, Widow Zhou brought out two large porcelain bowls.

One of them was salt beans fried with eggs, and the other was a large bowl of various meats.

"Luyo, come and eat!"

Widow Zhou placed the porcelain bowl on the table and reached out to grab two sesame cakes from the package next to her.

"I fried these salted beans myself, thinking that if I had to escape, I could put them in a cloth bag and take them with me."

"As for this bowl of meat stew, it was given to us by Madam Liu when Xiaoyi and I went to Shuxiang Restaurant to report the news to Mr. Zhao."

"Mr. Zhao invited all the important gentlemen in the town today. There was a lot of extra meat on the table, so he folded it together and gave us a big bowl."

Upon hearing this, Lu You said nothing, but took the pancake and chopsticks and started eating with big mouthfuls.

Seeing the way Lu You was eating so fast, Widow Zhou poured him some cold tea and advised him to eat slower, for fear that he would choke.

Next to the dining table, Lu Yi sat on a stool and looked at Lu You silently. It was not until Lu You finished eating two sesame cakes and reached for another cake from the package that he finally couldn't help but ask.

"Second sister, you have all these blood and knife wounds on your body. What happened to you?"

Lu You's hands froze for a moment, then he grabbed two pancakes from the package and sat down again to eat them.

"I wanted to rent a car to go back to the village to pick someone up this morning, and I happened to meet Uncle Li."

"When we were leaving the town, Zheng Xiezi and his men followed us. They wanted to kill me and force me to tell them where Lu Ming was."

Lu You spoke incoherently while chewing the food in his mouth.

Lu Yi's face darkened when he heard this: "It seems that Lang Zhengping really doesn't intend to let us go."

"It's not them." Lu You picked up a large piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth: "It's the Jin soldiers!"

Afterwards, while eating, Lu You recounted the story of how the Jin soldiers intercepted and killed the postman and then chased them.

When Lu Yi heard that the Jin soldiers' scouts had arrived more than ten miles outside Qingshi Town, he suddenly became nervous.

"The Jin soldiers have arrived. What about my eldest sister, my third uncle, my third aunt, etc...."

"Uncle San and Aunt San are fine." Lu You said while eating without raising his head, "Before I came back, I went to the village to check. Uncle Li had already brought back the news. The people in the village should have gone into the mountains."

"That's good."

Lu Yi let out a long breath, but then he reacted and suddenly looked up at Lu You.

"Then... where is my eldest sister?"

Lu You looked at the food in the bowl without daring to look up. Because he used too much force with his left hand, the edges of the two pancakes in his hand were pinched into thin pancakes.

When the Jin soldiers attacked, she should have told Lu Yi and the others the news as soon as she returned home.

But when she thought of the tragic death of Lu Yao's family, she didn't know how to start.

But this matter cannot be concealed.

Lu You was silent for a long time, and finally picked up the pancake and stuffed it into his mouth.

"I was late. When I arrived at Songpo Village, the entire village had been massacred by a group of Jin soldiers."

"Eldest sister, brother-in-law, little Bao'er, they are all dead..."

Thinking back to Lu Yao's humiliated look, and the nursery rhyme that Lu Yao sang while holding Xiao Bao, Lu You's voice choked with sobs, and tears kept dripping into the porcelain bowl below.

Before today, she had only met Lu Yao once.

But in her memory, she can still remember all the good things her elder sister had done for her.

Lu Yao was three years older than her. She had sung that sleep song to her, to Lu Ming, and to Lu Yi.

At that time in the courtyard, when Lu Yao was holding Xiao Baoer's body with a dull look in her eyes and humming the ballad again, Lu You felt a sharp pain in his heart as if it was pierced by a sword.

Lu Yi, who was standing aside, had an indifferent expression on his face, but his two hands under the table were tightly grasping his thighs.

"How did my elder sister die?" Lu Yi asked in a trembling voice.

"An arrow pierced the heart."

Lu You did not put down his chopsticks and continued to eat the meat in the bowl with big mouthfuls.

"Everyone in the village was killed with one blow. In order to clear the official roads and prevent anyone from reporting the incident, the Jin soldiers killed people very quickly."

As he spoke, Lu You put down his chopsticks, pressed the remaining sesame cake to the bottom of the bowl, scraped the minced meat and soup a few times, then picked up the bowl and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Only one of the Jin soldiers from that banner escaped, and I killed all the others."

After saying this, Lu You didn't even look at Lu Yi's reaction. She wiped the tears from her face, walked into the side room and took out a pair of scissors.

"Aunt, help me cut my hair!"

Hearing Lu You's instructions, Widow Zhou, who was cleaning up the dishes, hurried over to Lu You.

"Luyou, you are covered in blood. I'll boil some hot water for you to wash and change your clothes first..."

"It's not trimming, it's cutting." Lu You handed the scissors to Widow Zhou, raised his hand and gently pointed at her neck: "Cut here, shoulder-length is good."

"This……"

Holding the scissors, Widow Zhou was a little at a loss.

In the tradition of the Wu State, women were considered beautiful if they had long hair. No one had ever seen a woman cut her hair so short like Lu You.

"Really cut it?"

"Cut it!" Lu You replied affirmatively while sitting on the stool: "This world is too chaotic. I was almost hacked to death this afternoon because of this long hair, so I have to cut it."

After hearing what Lu You said, Widow Zhou didn't ask any more questions. She just walked silently behind Lu You and gently grabbed the hair that was stuck together because of the blood.

Although Lu You's hair was rough, it was very thick and dense. Widow Zhou originally wanted to divide Lu You's hair into two parts and then cut it short.

But just when she separated a handful of hair and was about to cut it, she was stunned for a moment, then she shrugged her shoulders and couldn't help crying.

"Luyo...how did you do this..."

Hearing the crying of Widow Zhou, Lu Yi looked up at Lu You, but saw that there was a half-palm-sized spot on the back of Lu You's head covered by long hair. There was no hair at all, and instead there was a solidified blood clot.

"Second sister..." Lu Yi said with a sob, staring at the blood scab.

"When I was fighting the Jin soldiers, someone grabbed my hair."

"I was trying to dodge the knife to save my life, and a piece of my scalp was torn off. It has healed now, and I'm fine."

Lu You said it lightly, but Widow Zhou and Lu Yi knew that Lu You was just avoiding the main point.

Click...

As the sound of scissors was rang out, Lu You's waist-length hair suddenly had a cut.

Widow Zhou wiped her tears and cut the hairpins gently and carefully, for fear of tearing Lu You's wound.

"When I left Songpo Village, I gave the villagers five taels of silver and asked them to help bury my eldest sister and her family at the foot of the pine slope at the entrance of the village."

"My eldest sister said that she liked that pine forest very much..."

Sitting on the stool, Lu You said softly.

"Now the Jin soldiers have sent out scouts and scouts to block the official road. The army behind them should be not far away."

"I'll go change my clothes later, and then we'll go directly to the East Gate to see if we can leave the city overnight..."

As Lu You was speaking, his eyes suddenly widened and he stood up abruptly.

Widow Zhou was startled and quickly let go of Lu You's hair: "What's wrong?"

Lu You recalled everything that had just happened and seemed a little flustered.

"wrong!"

"At noon, the Jin soldiers' scouts chased the postman to fifteen miles west of the city."

“Those merchants at Ximen obviously arrived at Ximen after the curfew.”

"At that time, the official road had already been blocked by the Jin soldiers! Where did they come from?!"