He walked to the yard, poured another bowl of warm water from the earthen pot, and then quietly placed it on the kang.
Then, while sighing in his heart, he carried the earthen jar back to the outhouse. After finishing this, I still felt my face was burning and my back was itching, so I simply walked to the gate of the courtyard to see the horses.
The white horse snorted when he saw him and rubbed his face with his head. Li Bochen scratched his neck and said, "Oh, Brother Ma, I'm so stupid."
After he said these few words, he vaguely heard low sobbing coming from the room, and he stopped talking and listened. But it seemed that Lin Qiao quickly suppressed her voice after hearing that there was no movement outside the hospital.
Li Boxen felt even more distressed. Looking back at it now, I realized that Lin Qiao had hardly caused any trouble to him along the way, and he had never asked himself how to deal with her. Any man who sees her like this should praise her as "understanding". But how did she get this understanding? I must have learned it over the years in a place of joy, swallowing tears in my heart.
When I said that apology just now, I really meant it sincerely. But I also know that this sentence alone can't make up for anything.
In normal times, I might be able to think of some way to apologize, but now in this deserted village and shop with bleak vegetation, can I still find a bouquet of dried flowers to apologize to? What's more, that kind of thing may not work - although Lin Qiao has been in the dust for these years, the noble spirit in her heart must not have been completely damaged, otherwise she would not have immediately given up so much money and agreed to leave with him.
For such a woman, if you pester her and insist on making her happy, you will be looking down on her.
Li Bochen sighed again, took off the long knife from Zhang Shanjun's cave from the side of the horse, and walked into the house with it.
He didn't have the nerve to look at her anymore, just stared at the water bowl on the kang and said: "...Miss Lin, it's my fault. You were already sick, and you made me angry again. I think this - today we Just spend the night here while you recuperate."
Then he placed the long knife on the kang: "There shouldn't be anyone around here, but I'll put this knife here. I'll go out to find something and I'll be back soon - do you think this will work?"
Lin Qiao whispered: "Okay, Brother Li."
She stopped crying now, but her voice was hoarse and nasal. This was more uncomfortable than her scolding herself.
Li Boxen sighed and said, "There is some food outside, and there is also a fire. If you are cold, go and warm yourself up by the fire...I'll be right back."
After saying this, he turned around and left the house, led the white horse to the courtyard and tied it.
He planned to get some things that Lin Qiao needed. When he came here, he took the road to the west. This time he planned to continue walking along the stream to the west. There might be some villages, market towns, etc. in that direction, but that direction was mountainous, and riding a horse would be cumbersome. So he might as well I won’t bring it anymore.
He took out the pair of iron gloves from the baggage on the horse's back, put them on, and strode out of the door.
In fact, he himself is no slower than a horse when running in the mountains and fields, and his endurance is stronger than that of a horse. Soon they reached the top of the mountain where they hunted the wolf before, picked up the wolf corpse and carried it on their back, and ran down.
It took about a quarter of an hour to get out of the forest and see a meadow in the distance. The stream that followed me when I came flows through this meadow. The grass is golden in the sunlight, and the stream meanders through it, which is really beautiful. When Li Bochen saw this scene and saw the sky was a clear blue, he finally felt relieved.
He walked in the meadow for a while, and suddenly let out a hey, and thought to himself, forget it, I am a man, why should I be so coquettish. It's true that I was wrong for saying the bastard thing, but if I can't keep my face clean in front of her, wouldn't she feel even more uncomfortable in a house with a daughter? When I go back later, it’s better to be more normal. As for apologizing and making amends... what does she want most?
What women in this world want most is a stable and happy life. If you want to live a stable life, you have to be with the right person and have money.
He is a human being...and he seems to be married to her fingertips. But the two of them shouldn't be suitable. It's not that she "dislikes" her for having fallen into the dusty world, but that she is in a precarious situation and is in a lot of troubles. How can she live a good life? Even if you have this intention, you can't do it now.
That's money. But she only has more than 3,000 yuan at the moment. Looking at her usual expenses for food and clothing, she probably won't even be able to survive for a month. She may not love money... but since she said she wanted to buy a "small village" before... if she can really get a small village for her, she will have a place to live.
In the past, a farm like that would have cost a million dollars, but after Li Bochen thought about it, he felt that the money was not beyond his reach.
In today's world, what's the fastest way to make money? Of course it's a grab. He doesn't rob ordinary people, but he can rob bandits and bandits. There are many bandits in Sanguan City. Although they are several groups together, there should be more than a hundred people in one family. Look at the third leader of that village, "Chang Da Tian", actually wearing a suit of heavy armor and a tall horse. I think these bandit villages have some stocks.
Those people were doing evil in Sanguan City, but I could loot their hometown and get millions of dollars easily!
When he thought about it, he felt more and more wonderful, and felt more relaxed. He couldn't help but laugh, raised his head and let out a roar, which shocked a large group of tits to fly up in the meadow.
After passing through this meadow, I really saw a forest path. He ran along the way, and when he got out of the forest, he finally saw the house. But it's neither a village nor a market town, but a few scattered households scattered under a hillside. Several fields have been opened on a gravel beach at the foot of the mountain, and it seems that they are not enough for one family to eat for half a year.
There shouldn't be much to buy or exchange for such a family. Li Boxen felt a little disappointed, but he still slowed down and walked over carrying the wolf corpse.
The wooden door of a house nearby was closed tightly. Li Boxen knocked on the door, but no one answered. He thought that the person was not at home, so he planned to go to another house, but when he passed by the window, he seemed to hear a soft sound from inside, so he stopped and whispered: "Excuse me, is there anyone in the house?"
The people inside didn't speak. Maybe the woman is at home - it's common for people to be afraid to speak when meeting strangers in this kind of place. He said: "I came from Sanguan City and stopped on the road. I don't have enough food and drink for daily necessities, so I want to buy some in exchange for some--"
Then he shook the cloth pocket on his waist and made the copper coins inside rattle: "It's not in vain."
No one said anything yet. After a while, when he sighed and was about to leave, the wooden door creaked and opened a crack. A little girl showed half of her face behind the door and said timidly: "My mother asked you what you want."
After saying this, the little girl seemed to see the armor he was wearing, and her eyes suddenly widened. She was not afraid, but seemed extremely curious.
Li Bochen knelt down and smiled, saying, "Ask your grandma if you have rice, noodles, clothes and bedding at home."
The girl immediately ducked from behind the door. She forgot to close the door, and the crack in the door became wider. Li Bochen saw that the house was really bare-walled, and there was not even a stove. There was only a fire pit built with stones, and a pottery pot with a blackened bottom was placed on it. Can. I also heard the girl talking to another woman in the room, but her voice was very soft and hard to hear clearly.
After a while, the little girl returned to the door and said, "My mother-in-law said there was a straw mattress and two pancakes."
Just as Li Bochen was about to speak, she had already thrown out two pieces of dry biscuits. There was another rustling sound, and a broken mattress was pushed out from the crack of the door.
The two pieces of dry biscuits looked edible, but the mattress was so patchy that it was hard to see what it originally looked like.
Hearing another bang, the little girl closed the door.
Li Bochen was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, what does this mean?
Then I discovered that although the mattress was torn, it was very clean. He frowned slightly, reached in and touched it, and found that it was warm. The family must have put it there themselves. He immediately understood what was going on - maybe the girl had gone to tell her mother what she looked like.
A strong man in armor appeared outside the house and said kindly that he wanted to use money to buy some food, drink and daily necessities... Only a ghost would believe it.
Maybe he thinks he is some kind of bandit. Perhaps there were really only two loaves and a shabby mattress at home, so they were quickly "offered" to them. Li Bochen felt uncomfortable for a while, and then remembered the appearance of the little girl - her slender body supported a big head, and she was not wearing clothes, but two pieces of rags sewn together. I don't know how cold the weather is. This family is having a hard time.
He sighed lowly, placed the wolf corpse at the door, and took a piece of silver and placed it in front of the door. Just when I was about to leave, I thought for a while, touched a dozen more copper coins and put them on the silver collar - I don't know if this family has seen the silver before, and I can't recognize what it is for.
Then he said: "Thank you very much. I left a wolf at the door. If my sister-in-law has nothing to eat at home, just eat this. There is some money outside the door, remember to take it."
After saying this, he picked up the mattress, turned around and took two steps. The door behind him creaked again, maybe the little girl opened the door to take a look. Then suddenly I heard a hollow cough, as if someone had been holding it in for a long time. Then I heard a woman say repeatedly: "Brother, brother, don't go, don't go!"
Li Bochen turned around and saw a thin, dark woman wearing a white singlet holding the door open to look at him. But after looking carefully, I realized that the clothes were not white originally, they were just washed.
The woman stared at the wolf and the money on the ground, and said, "It's not worth it... Oh, I thought you were..."
After saying this, he coughed hard again, waving towards the house while coughing. The little girl walked to the door holding a gourd and ladle and said, "Uncle, I asked you to drink water."
The woman took a breath and then said: "There is really nothing to entertain guests at home...Brother, if you don't mind, just drink some water. I thought you were a bandit on the mountain..."
Li Bochen sighed inwardly, put down the mattress, and walked over to take the water ladle. He wasn't thirsty, but he didn't want to be distracted, so he drank it all in one breath. Seeing the woman's eyes rolling around on the copper coins and silver collars, she seemed to want to say "it's not worth it", so she said: "I used it in a hurry, so I think it's worth it."
He handed the ladle to the girl, turned around and took another step, and couldn't help but ask: "Sister, are you the only one in your family?"
The woman hurriedly said: "My man has gone to work."
After thinking for a while, he added: "I'll be back when it gets dark. A new family has moved to the west and wants to set up a village... My man is helping with the work."
Li Bochen nodded, picked up the mattress and walked away. I heard the woman say from behind again: "Brother, there is no need to ask those families... they are all starving to death."
Li Bochen hummed lowly, strode onto the road, and walked into the forest before sighing heavily. I was in a good mood before in the meadow, but now I feel heavy again.
"Starved to death" - he had heard of such things, but had never seen them with his own eyes. Now that I have seen these families, I feel that these three words have become real.
He walked slowly, really not knowing what to say - even though he was not well-fed and well-fed when he was in the Infinite Army, he was well fed. When I was in Zhangcheng, I lived in the Tao family. Looking at the prosperity on the street, I felt that although the world was not good, it was not too bad either. There are all kinds of shops and food stalls on the street, and ordinary people can get drunk and satiated with a dozen big bucks.
In the village where he grew up, although some families had to find wild vegetables to steam pancakes to eat during the lean years, at least no one died of starvation.
Just now, I was thinking about where to get millions of dollars to buy a small village for Lin Qiao, but just a dozen miles away from Sanguan City, people were "starving to death" - and this man was about to starve to death. Went to help a manor owner. The newly moved owner of the manor must also be well fed and clothed.
He did not hate those who were wealthy. No matter what the world is like, there will always be people who have no worries about food and clothing. I just thought that the reason why these people are in such a miserable state is probably because of the weapons from more than ten years ago. After the war, a new order failed to be established. Bandits were rampant outside the city, making life difficult for the people.
In fact, it's not just because of this - if you are an ordinary gangster, you can organize some vigilante groups in many places to protect yourself. But there are magical spells in this world, and gangsters are no longer ordinary gangsters. Practitioners like myself are, in a sense, no longer the same "people" as the mother and daughter just now.
Walking through the mountains and fields by myself, I am not very afraid of cold, heat and illness, and it is even easier to get some food. Seeing how poor that family was just now, he had a thought in his mind - guarding such a mountain and such a wilderness, how could he not get food?
But then I thought about it, let alone whether those large mountains and fields belonged to other people and whether they were allowed to hunt. Even if they could, it would be too difficult for a family like just now to make a living through this.
Where can they get money to buy crossbows? If you make it yourself, can you make something suitable? Even if there is, can the shot be accurate? If you want to lay a trap, who can you learn from? If we spend a year and a half on these things, what will our family eat? There is still some Susukada to take care of.
Moreover, ordinary people like that are prone to illness and fatigue due to extremely poor nutritional conditions. If they suffer a serious injury while hunting in the mountains, they may die. Orion... sounds very ordinary, but it is not something ordinary people can do.
They are just too fragile. In troubled times, people's lives are like straw, and they have lived a very miserable life.
There are probably many such families in Li Guo. He gave them more than a thousand dollars today because he couldn't bear it. But if you encounter the same situation in the future, you can't continue to spend money. If you really want to help, you may be able to wipe out all the bandits watching along the way, but is this really useful?
In the final analysis, it is because Li Guo is now in chaos.
Li Bochen once knew that he might be a descendant of Beichen and a descendant of the royal family surnamed Li, so he felt that he had moral obligations and responsibilities. But if I want to live my whole life, it is best to live happily by myself. When encountering injustice, if you can help if you can, it will be considered as a good thing.
But in the current situation...if I were to be truly the "Emperor of Beichen" - living in seclusion and living alone, could I really be "clear of heart"?
He felt extremely confused and sighed heavily. After walking more than ten steps, I thought again, is it just because this place is in chaos?
Maybe it’s because of the cultivator I am.
The rule of the six surnamed royal families lasted for thousands of years, and most of the royal families were practitioners. As they live a long life, they spread their branches and leaves, and there are countless descendants named Wang. Even if many people, like Sui Yilian and Sui Ziang, have become similar to grassroots officials, after all, they still have to lead the unique enshrinement of the Wang surname.
Such a huge clan could not last at most five hundred years in his original place. But the reason why it can last for so long here is because of the magical magic and the blessing of spiritual gods.
The ordinary people like that family were squeezed to death, in exchange for the prosperity of the towns and cities where the surname Wang lived. For those people, this is a kind of darkness that will never see the light of day - they have no ability to fundamentally improve their situation.
Me neither. He thought, even if one day my cultivation could defeat the whole world alone, I still wouldn't know what to do. Changing and improving a world can never be accomplished by force alone. It involves all aspects that a person would be hard-pressed to understand even if he lived for hundreds and thousands of years.
Otherwise, why don't the spiritual gods make this world a better place and have more incense believers?
Thinking like this all the way, he walked back to the deserted village.
After entering the hospital, he found that the white horse was still there, and he breathed a sigh of relief. But as soon as he entered the house, he was stunned again.
He had originally lit the fire on the ground in the outhouse in a hurry to get food, but now he found that the fire had been moved to the stove. The stove was half collapsed, but it was cleared out and turned into a natural fire pit.
There was also a wooden plate on the stove. Li Boxen took a look and thought it was cut from a broken door or window board. He washed it and placed the remaining three barbecues on the wooden plate to warm.
The ground was also swept clean, revealing the original black mud. Half of the house collapsed, but at first glance, it didn't look so decadent.
...It must have been done by Lin Qiao. He was originally feeling heavy, but when he saw this scene, he suddenly felt relieved, and walked into the back room with the mattress in his arms - the floor and the kang in the back room had also been swept clean, and there was even a rotten straw mat spread on the kang. Lin Qiao was wrapped in a big cloak and was playing with a small table that was lame.
Seeing Li Bochen walking in, he turned around and said with a smile: "Brother Li—ah, where did you get the mattress?"
Is she not angry anymore? This temporary residence has been tidied up again like a small home. Li Bochen suddenly felt a warm current in his heart. He didn't know why, but even his throat became choked. He just said: "I... got it from a family in the west."
Lin Qiao came over, took the mattress, opened it, took a look, and said with a smile: "It's quite clean. You've traveled so far - there's still hot water in the jar. I just went to the nearby stores to look for it, and that's all I found." . There are a few dishes by the wall outside. You can wash them out later."
Then he walked to the kang, shook the mattress vigorously, and spread it. Li Bochen stood there, watching the sunlight coming in through the cracks in the window panels, making her skin almost transparent and reflecting the tiny dust flying in the air. He gasped and said: "Okay... Miss Lin ,good."
After saying this, he hurriedly walked out of the house and stood in the yard. When the wind blew, I felt a little cold on my face. I raised my hand and touched it, and found that two tears had fallen. He was stunned for a while, not knowing whether the tears were shed by himself or by the remaining consciousness.
It reminds me of Chang Tingwei. Reminds me of how she used to do housework. Lin Qiao is naturally not Chang Tingwei, and the relationship is also different. But after being alone for so long, and suddenly there was someone doing these things and taking care of him, he felt sour and empty in his heart.
Li Boxen sighed, walked to the wall and sat down slowly, looking at the two bowls and two plates on the ground, and was silent for a while.
Otherwise, just take her away. He suddenly said to himself in his heart, there is no need to worry about the righteousness of family and country... there is no need to worry. After taking care of the affairs of the Chang family, how about living a stable life? I am a practitioner and I can live a long time. Even if we delay for a few decades, the world will be destroyed, right?
But after a while, he took off his gloves, wiped his face hard, picked up the dishes, and walked out of the yard.
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