"How long will it take?" The generals looked at Zhao Kui with burning eyes. This was what they were most concerned about.
Zhao Kui stretched out two fingers helplessly, "Twenty days."
"Twenty days? If the cucumbers and vegetables are cold, then why fight if you don't have anything to eat!!"
"Yes! General, twenty days is too long. It will be at least a month before they arrive. What's the use?"
When the subordinates heard that the imperial court would not be able to start transporting food until twenty days later, some people immediately expressed dissatisfaction.
Zhao Kui smiled bitterly; "What can I do! The letter is from His Majesty's handwriting. You can read it. Fortunately, it was shipped in batches this time. The first batch of military rations should arrive some time early." After saying this, Zhao Kui left. The letter in his hand was handed to the deputy general for them to pass among themselves.
After the generals read it one by one, everyone's expressions became helpless.
The emperor's tone in the letter was quite kind, but the reality is that the court is indeed out of food, and the emperor and the court have tried their best.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they all sighed, nothing happened!
At this time, the soldiers of the Song Army had already packed up. Following Zhao Kui's order, the messengers quickly circulated among the troops, and the Song Army, which had spread for several miles, began to slowly roll forward again.
After waiting for two full hours, Song Jun's figure disappeared from the woman's sight.
She cautiously stuck her head out and looked back and forth. After making sure it was safe, she slipped down the slope next to the ridge with the boy on her back.
When she reached the foot of the mountain, she patted the dirt on her hands and ran towards the Song Army's camp with excitement on her face.
She didn't notice just now that in the woods opposite, there was a big man in ragged clothes waiting quietly for Song Jun to leave like him.
But just when the man was about to come out of the woods, he found her slipping down the slope. Then he quietly retreated and retreated into the woods again.
Looking at the cheerful woman through the cracks in the branches, a coldness flashed in her eyes.
The mantis stalks the cicada while the oriole follows behind!
The woman never expected that there would be someone nearby staring closely at their mother and son. The woman, unaware of the danger, just ran towards the Song Army's abandoned camp with excitement on her face and rummaged through the items discarded by the Song Army.
Half an hour later, the woman searched hundreds of meters but still found nothing.
But just as she was sitting on the ground dejected, her eyes inadvertently wandered to a gray sack under a wooden board.
The woman suddenly became energetic.
Like a stray dog smelling bones, it crawled over on all fours.
"Crash!" The board hit the broken wood strips on one side and collided with it.
The woman struggled to open the gray torn sack that was pulled out from under the wooden board. Once she took a look, her face was instantly flooded with ecstasy.
'Cause...clop! The woman first let out a laugh like a night owl, and then with a pious face she took out a handful of yellow and moldy rice from the broken sack. Tears flowed down his cheeks like a waterfall, his breathing became rapid, and his shoulders shook and trembled. .
The golden sunlight passed through the woman's fingers, giving her pious face with a protruding skull a touch of holiness. The woman carefully put her nose close to the rice in her palm and sniffed it. The musty smell of the rice made her seem to smell a fresh fragrance, and she looked satisfied.
"Crunch!...Crunch!"
The sound of footsteps rubbing against the ground was extremely subtle. The big man in ragged clothes had quietly walked more than ten steps behind the mother and son.
He was seen clutching a wooden stick about half a meter long in his right hand, slightly arching his body, and slowly moving towards the mother and son in front of him. If they weren't very close, people would basically not be able to detect his footsteps.
This man's skull is also high and protruding. It is obvious that he is also a hungry man who has been hungry for a long time.
The closer he was to the mother and son, the faster the man secreted saliva, and from time to time he licked his chapped lips with the tip of his tongue.
His eyes turned red, unblinking, staring at the mother and son not far away, one big and one small, with their backs to him. Their faces were ferocious, just like that of a leopard that saw its prey.
Just when the man carefully moved five steps behind the woman, the boy's ears on the woman's back suddenly twitched slightly, and then he turned his head and looked behind him curiously.
"Wow! Who are you? There is someone in my mother...!" The boy was so frightened by the man's ferocious expression that his face turned pale and he shouted loudly to his mother!
When the intoxicated woman heard her son's cry, she quickly turned her head to look. She was so horrified that the jelly beans in her hand, which she regarded as a treasure, fell all over the floor in an instant. At the critical moment, she burst out with all her strength and hid to the side.
The moment she turned her head, the man was startled by the boy's voice. He no longer concealed his body for a sneak attack, but strode forward with a grin, raised the wooden stick in his hand and immediately hit the woman on the head.
"Puff! Click..."
The sound of brain cracking that the man imagined did not happen.
Because this woman was at the moment of life and death, she turned her body slightly to the side and narrowly escaped the man's fatal blow.
But her head escaped, but her body did not. The stick hit the woman's left shoulder hard, and there was a crisp sound of bone cracking.
"Click!"
"ah!"
The woman let out a cry of pain, quickly covered her left arm with her right hand, her forehead quickly became covered with sweat, and she looked at the person coming from behind in horror.
Seeing that his mother was injured, the boy on the back couldn't stop crying. His mouth was so big that he couldn't make a sound.
"Who are you? What do you want to do?" the woman shouted with a painful frown.
The man was startled for a moment, but quickly came to his senses after hearing the woman's scolding.
Looking at the woman in front of him, whose legs were kicking and moving backwards, a hint of cruelty flashed through his eyes again.
"Giggle...! What are you doing? Don't you know..." When he spoke, there was a hint of disdain and greed in his eyes.
Then he smiled ferociously and stepped closer to the woman who was very close at hand. Under the desperate gaze of the woman, his expression became even more cruel and crazy.
The man used all his strength in this blow. Although he was ravenous now, his physical strength was still there after all, so the strength he exerted should not be underestimated.
After hearing another "Bang!" sound, the man bent over and gasped, with an ugly look on his face.
He tried his best this time, but the frail woman dodged him again. .
The woman's face turned even paler, and after secretly glancing at the two-section wooden stick on the ground beside her, a trace of joy flashed in her eyes.
But it's not over yet.
After missing twice, the man was already angry with embarrassment.
Although he was already very hungry, after a lot of tossing, he was almost exhausted now and his oil was exhausted.
But he had no intention of letting go of the feast in front of him.
He propped himself up with the wooden stick in his hand. After breathing heavily for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and rushed towards the woman again.
This time, the woman was not as lucky as before. After the pop, her skinny face turned blood red. The blood slowly flowed from the cheek to the jawbone, and then dripped from the jawbone to the clothes on the chest, and the clothes quickly turned a dirty red color.
The woman smiled, ignoring the pain in her left arm, and lifted her messy hair from her face, giggling.
Her laughter was completely different from the charming laughter of the brothels and beauties.
There is a hint of relief and a hint of joy, but it is hard to listen to and has no sense of beauty at all.
"Mother! He...is he dead!?"
Carrying the boy on her back, the curious shout brought the woman back to reality.
She first glanced at the man whose chest was exposed by a wooden stick, then turned around and comforted her son with a smile; "Yes!" he died. We have meat to eat tonight. '
As soon as the boy heard that there was meat to eat, he immediately jumped off the woman's back, cheering excitedly with a smiling face;
'very nice! There was meat to eat again. An An hasn't eaten meat for a long time.
I remember the last time I ate meat, it was An An who ate it after his father died! '
The boy's childish voice made the woman's smiling face instantly become stained with tears, and she burst into tears.
His cries are like cuckoos crying for blood, and their tears are like the water passing away from the east.
At this moment, she seemed to still hear the conversation between her husband and her husband when they were leaving;
'Wan Niang.
If this continues, we will all die. promise me! You two must live on and try your best to bring An An up! '
'Husband! No...! ah! ! ! '
'Mother, what's wrong with you? Aren’t you supposed to be happy eating meat? Why are you crying? An'an looked at her tearful mother with a puzzled look on her face, tilted her head, and sucked her fingers with a puzzled look on her face.
The woman burst into tears upon hearing this, and held the child in front of her in her arms.
He rubbed his face twice with his dusty sleeve, pressed his thin face tightly against his son's cheek, and showed a smile: "Husband, don't worry!" Even if I die, I will bring An An up. The incense of Lao Wang’s family cannot be cut off. '
night!
Everything is silent, the sky is filled with stars and sand, and insects are chirping in the hills.
During the day, the boy named An An was sucking his thumb with a mouth full of oil and a satisfied look on his face.
Suddenly something occurred to him and he asked the woman who was drinking light rice porridge by the campfire;
"Mom, when will dad come back? An An misses him." When the little boy asked, his dark eyes were very bright and curved into a crescent moon.
The movement of the woman's hand immediately froze.
He forced an ugly smile, hugged his son, pointed to the brightest star on the northern Milky Way and said;
'Did you see it? An'an.
That is dad, who has been watching us. '
The little boy An An's dark eyes suddenly became brighter.
Following her mother's finger, she looked at the bright Polar Star in the north of the dazzling Milky Way, and exclaimed, "The place where dad lives is so beautiful! An An wants to go there too."
The woman heard this with a loving look on her face, hugged the boy in her arms tighter, and said with a sweet smile, "Yes, we will live in such a beautiful place like my father in the future!" '
'Great...' The boy stretched out his hand excitedly, as if he wanted to fly to the distant North Star.
…
Polaris seemed to be frightened. He hurriedly moved away from the little boy and turned his attention to the Onon River in the north of the earth.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, a snow-white horse on the edge of the rocky beach looked even more dazzling under the starry sky.
It kicked its dark horse hooves from time to time, tilting its head to glance at Zhang Han and his wife nestling on the boulder.
With a shy look on his face, Yeli Ketun leaned against Zhang Han's broad chest and asked in a low voice, "Sir, do you think I will gain weight after the baby comes out?" '
Zhang Han looked down at his wife's wrinkled face, feeling even more loving.
Smiling and comforting;
"Don't worry! You will always be the most beautiful in Zhang Han's heart."
After hearing this, Yeli Kedun felt much more at ease.
Ruby's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning, she pouted and lightly hammered her husband's chest.
'He will coax people! '
"That's right! Who told me to be your man? If I don't coax you, who can I coax you?" Zhang Han looked proud.
"You have such a sweet mouth, are you hiding something from me?" Yeli Ketun pulled his head out of Zhang Han's arms, and his black waterfall-like hair instantly fell on his shoulders.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised to form two shallow pear pits, and he asked with a smile.
