The return of the son-in-law

"This..." The shopkeeper of the restaurant looked at Huo Yu, who was in a bunt, not knowing what expression to make, "Master Huo Yu, are you going to serve porridge yourself?"

Huo Yu nodded with a smile and said, "My brother is busy with government affairs, and I have no other way to share his worries. Why don't we go and see how the refugees live there, so that no one can deceive us."

After Huo Yu said that, the shopkeeper couldn't persuade him too much, he just told him: "Young Master Huo Yu, you have to be careful, even though all the young ones have been sent out of the city, there are still a lot of them left behind. Sting head, maybe you will bully you because of your young age. In this way, I will send more people to go with you, and if someone bullies you, you should call it out loud. "

Huo Yu waved his hands again and again, and said, "Don't worry, I'm not a three-year-old kid, I'm already 15 years old. Besides, I haven't lost my punching skills in the past two years, so I don't know who will bully who."

As he spoke, Huo Yu bent his legs, clenched his left hand around his waist, and punched out with his right hand.

The shopkeeper couldn't help laughing, but he still kept an eye on his heart. He took advantage of Huo Yu's inattention and went to explain a few words to the staff in his restaurant, telling them to pay more attention, so that if there was a conflict and Huo Yu was injured, then he But he couldn't explain to his master and Guo Zhan'an.

Huo Yu followed the crowd to the place where the refugees gathered, and saw a refugee sitting on the ground leaning on a pillar at the door, seeing them coming, his eyes lit up, he immediately stood up from the ground, and ran towards them at a trot: "Master, master, Is this for us?"

The leading man frowned and said, "It's for you, don't touch it!" He hit the refugee's hand that was touching the lid of the wooden barrel, and said, "Let them all come out and get the porridge at the door." , and you don’t need to bring bowls, we have them here.”

The refugee stuttered happily: "Give me back the bowl! How big is this bowl? Let me see, let me see."

The man looked down on this man, and urged: "If you're not hungry to death, hurry up!"

The refugee still refused to leave, and looked around the donkey cart for a long time, finally saw the bowl under the corner of the coarse cloth, and couldn't help licking his lips: "It's so big, then, then I should drink more."

While speaking, the donkey cart had already arrived at the door, and the smell of porridge gradually drifted inside. Before the refugee could go in and notify everyone, the people inside came out one after another.

Several men moved the wooden bucket containing the porridge from the donkey cart, and three men mixed in among the crowd, yelling loudly to make them line up in a long queue.

Huo Yu was standing next to the porridge giver, and every time a refugee came, he would take out a bowl from the basket beside him and hand it to the porridge giver.

Most of these refugees were listless, with heavy fatigue on their brows. As soon as some people got the porridge, they walked two steps to the side and then raised their heads and swallowed the porridge together with the chopped pickles; One family, after receiving the porridge, went to the side to find an open space to sit down. Several people formed a circle by themselves, and others were not allowed to join in at will; Just drink it with pickles.

But no matter who it is, everyone will lick the bowl clean with their tongues in the end, even those who accidentally spilled a little water on the rim of the bowl due to carelessness when scooping the porridge.

Huo Yu looked sad. He saw that after everyone got a bowl of porridge, there was still some left in the wooden bucket, so he couldn't help scooping up another bowl of porridge. He just wanted to give it to the hungry man not far away. Boy, I was stopped by a guy.

"Master Huo Yu, you can't do this." The man said in a low voice, "What this person is most afraid of is not poverty, but injustice. Now each person has a bowl of porridge, and each bowl is full of three spoons. No one can complain, but if you give someone half a spoonful of porridge, and others see it, they won't agree. At that time, there may be a dispute, isn't it just causing trouble for yourself for no reason? "

After being reminded like this, Huo Yu remembered what it means to not worry about the few but worry about the unevenness. He nodded and said, "It's because I didn't think it through, thank you."

The clerk hurriedly said: "Young Master Huo Yu is not worthy of thanks. It is Young Master Huo Yu, I will offend you."

Before Huo Yu could react, the guy snatched the bowl from Huo Yu's hand and cursed loudly: "Why are you greedy! I haven't eaten yet after being busy all morning. How can you eat first!"

As he said that, the man threw the bowl of porridge into the wooden barrel together with the bowl, only to hear a crisp sound, the bowl shattered into several pieces, mixed with the remaining thin layer of porridge in the wooden barrel together.

One of the refugees who was near was bold, licked his lips, took a few steps forward, and said ingratiatingly, "Masters, this porridge is mixed with ceramic chips. Drinking it will easily hurt your mouth. Why don't you give it to me?" I'm not a waste."

Hearing his words, the other refugees also leaned over, greedily looking at the last porridge in the barrel.

The guy roared: "Do you have a share in talking! Leave me alone to cool off! The kindhearted people have given you porridge with good intentions. If you are not grateful, let it be. Do you still want to grab it!"

Most of the refugees staying in Xuzhou today are old people and children. The only few young people are either sick or disabled. Facing these guys, they dare not do anything out of the ordinary.After being yelled at by the man, these refugees could only rest their minds and stared at the wooden barrel wistfully, and reluctantly left under the urging of the man.

Huo Yu saw him at the side, and thought in his heart that he was lucky and a little ashamed - he had been studying with Guo Zhan'an for so long, and he didn't even remember such a simple truth. It's over.

After distributing the porridge, a few guys stood by the donkey cart and chatted. After most of the refugees had finished their porridge, they went to the refugee pile in groups of two to take back the bowls.

When a few old people delivered the bowls, they were still muttering: "Thank you for the great benefactors, thank you for the little benevolent people. I don't know the names of the benevolent people. If I have the life to go home, I will definitely set up the longevity ranking for all the benevolent people."

Of course Huo Yu wouldn't tell them, but just said with a smile: "Don't worry about the old man. Do good deeds and accumulate virtue for the sake of peace of mind. If you pursue too much longevity ranking, then you're putting the cart before the horse."

These people were all born in poverty and hadn't studied for a few years. Fortunately, what Huo Yu said was quite easy to understand.They heard that Huo Yu was unwilling to reveal the name of the great benevolent man, and couldn't help clasping their palms together. After Amitabha said something, they put down the bowl and left.

Huo Yu swiftly put the bowl into the basket, and heard someone asking for the name of the benevolent man who gave the porridge, so he couldn't help thinking, smiled and said to the refugees next to him: "The porridge is just an expedient measure. The great benevolent people are just doing what they can, and it would be really good if they can send you home safely as soon as possible."

Sure enough, someone mentioned the Tatars as Huo Yu expected: "This is not something that a good man can do alone. The Tatars are really hateful. I heard that they are already approaching the city, and the border city will be lost!"

Another refugee heard this and said, "How did I hear that they were still fifty miles away, but according to the speed of the Tatar cavalry, it would take less than two days."

"No, no, what you said is not right!" Another refugee rushed to say, "The border town has been taken down by Tatar a long time ago, and it is about to hit our village! This is what a soldier master told me personally. , he told us to rush to Xuzhou to take refuge, or we might lose our lives if we were later!"

The previous refugee shouted: "Nonsense! I am also a soldier who told me that the Tatar cavalry is still fifty miles away!"

In addition, several refugees shared the information they knew. One said that the Tatar cavalry was unstoppable, the border town had been captured, and several other nearby villages and counties would not be protected. I am afraid that only Xuzhou in the entire northwest could survive for a while; the other It is said that the Northwest Army has abandoned the border and fully retreated to a camp one hundred miles in front of Xuzhou, where they are going to fight the Tatar cavalry for life and death.

It was only then that everyone discovered that these people had all heard what a certain soldier said, or their neighbors and people in the same village had heard about it from the soldier and came back to tell them. There were more than a dozen stories.

Seeing that a group of people over the age of 40 were about to fight, Huo Yu hurriedly raised his voice and said, "Everyone has worked so hard to get to Xuzhou, why should you be unhappy because of such a small matter? Today's porridge is over, tomorrow The great benevolent people will send us to give out porridge, so why not save some energy and wait for tomorrow."

Huo Yu's words just fell on their hearts. Didn't these people abandon their homeland and come to Xuzhou just to seek a chance?Now I can't get enough to eat every day, not to mention the injury consultation, if I fight, I will suffer.

With the steps given to them by Huo Yu, these refugees each snorted, adhering to the principle of losing no battle, and yelled a few words such as "Don't leave if you have the ability", "Whoever goes first is the first!" Grandson" These innocuous words disappeared one after another.

Huo Yu was worried that someone would follow him, so he followed the guys back to the restaurant, borrowed a room in the backyard, changed his clothes, and then returned to Guo's mansion with the vegetarian roast goose from the restaurant.

When Guo Zhan'an came back, Huo Yu hurriedly told him what he found out today: "Brother, those refugees have different stories today, it seems that more than one soldier is spreading rumors about Tatar."

As he spoke, he told Guo Zhan'an everything that happened today.

After listening, Guo Zhanan thought for a while and asked, "Do you know where these people come from?"

Huo Yu thought about it for a while, and said: "I did tell you a few, what about Hulun, Zuo Ni, I don't remember clearly, and it happens that I have to give porridge tomorrow, so I will inquire about it tomorrow."

Guo Zhanan said: "Alright, be careful, don't let people find out your identity. I'm afraid that Xuzhou will not be very peaceful these two days. Today, five refugees and hooligans who want to fish in troubled waters have been caught. I'm afraid there will be more in the future." .”

Huo Yu nodded and said, "Don't worry, brother, I know."

With the experience of the first day, Huo Yu didn't have to work hard on the second day to find out their backgrounds from a few refugees, where did he hear the news about Tatar, and told them what the soldiers looked like.

It's just that Huo Yu wasn't very happy, instead he returned to Guo's mansion worriedly. When Guo Zhan'an came back from the office, Huo Yu didn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly took Guo Zhan'an to the study and said, "Brother, I don't think this is right! How many questions did you ask today?" There are two refugees, two of whom heard the news personally from soldiers. One soldier has a square face, small eyes, and aquiline nose; Also, there is another one who has seen soldiers talking to his neighbors, and his appearance is completely different from the previous two! As for the remaining few, they all heard it from people in the same village, but the opinions of these people The places of origin are different. I looked at the map specially, and they are quite far away from each other. I can’t get there in two days. I calculated that the time when these people heard the news was at most one day apart, so they couldn’t be the same person. The soldiers said it!"

After hearing Huo Yu's words yesterday, Guo Zhan'an was worried about this. Hearing Huo Yu's words today, he was even more certain of his suspicions—there was really a mole in the Northwest Army Camp.

It's just that Guo Zhan'an didn't want Huo Yu to know about it, and comforted him: "Don't worry, many of these soldiers are forced by life, and they probably didn't have much courage in the first place. Panic first."

Huo Yu has grown up, and he is not as easy to deceive as before. He said: "Brother, don't lie to me. Now that so many refugees have poured into Xuzhou, it must be even more chaotic outside! This Tatar hasn't come in yet. If one or two soldiers are afraid Forget it, how can so many soldiers be afraid? And even if they are afraid in their hearts, why would they say these things to the common people? Don’t the army have rules? "

Guo Zhan'an didn't know whether to be happy or embarrassed, and said with a wry smile, "I've grown up after all."

Huo Yu was angry and anxious, angry because Guo Zhanan knew to lie to him, and anxious because it was already this time, why did his brother still patronize and lament that he had grown up!

"Brother, what's going on? Why are there so many soldiers in the northwest spreading rumors? Isn't Jiang Yannian in the barracks? I remember that he's still an official, doesn't he care?"

"Although Jiang Yannian is an official, there are several people with higher ranks than him in the Northwest Army Camp, and he is not the one who can make decisions..." At the end, Guo Zhan'an raised his voice, obviously his thoughts had drifted to other places .

"Brother, what's wrong?"

"Not good!" Guo Zhan'an suddenly became anxious, "I'm afraid Jiang Yannian will be in trouble!"

Huo Yu saw Guo Zhan'an's face was ugly, and he said such words again, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong? Jiang Yannian is going to be in trouble? Then brother, let's go and save him!"

"No!" Guo Zhan'an took a deep breath, "The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. Although we know that there is a problem with the Northwest Army Camp, we still don't know which people have the problem. If we sound the warning now, I am afraid that it will not only help Jiang Yannian, but also help Jiang Yannian. Instead, it exposed us all."

Seeing Guo Zhanan's seriousness, Huo Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he asked cautiously, "Then, shall we do nothing then?"

Guo Zhanan waved his hand: "No, let me think about it. In Jiang Yannian's day, I don't believe he would be so easily restrained. The other party just let a few soldiers spread rumors, and they didn't dare to make any big moves in the barracks, which shows that the Northwest barracks has not yet Being controlled by the enemy, Jiang Yannian's life will not be in danger for the time being. No, King Qin!"

"King Qin?" Huo Yu was taken aback, "What happened to King Qin?"

"If I'm not wrong, someone in the capital is going to deal with the King of Qin!" Guo Zhan'an gritted his teeth angrily, "It's such a vicious scheme, it's actually going to kill all three of us!"

"Then, what should we do, brother?"

"Don't rush, don't panic," Guo Zhan'an comforted Huo Yu, and at the same time comforted himself, "The situation is not clear right now, I can only guess that someone is going to use Tatar to deal with us, and I don't know anything else .Now we can only take one step at a time and act accordingly. Yu’er, you don’t want to go out these days. Anyway, the purchases in the kitchen are enough for half a month, so you stay in the house. I don’t doubt you It’s just that the other party hides in the dark, and if we are negligent, it will cause serious trouble, if they kidnap you and threaten me, and ask for my head, tell me, will I give it to them?”

When Huo Yu heard Guo Zhanan's last words, his thoughts stopped when he woke up: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely not hold you back. It's just that brother, I have grown up. If you can get my place, brother, you will never give up." Don't hold on alone, let me share my brother's worries."

Guo Zhanan only felt that his hanging heart seemed to be supported by a soft and thick cloud, his expression softened, and he said, "Naturally."