After standing in the cold wind for a while, everyone arrived at another side courtyard.
This side courtyard is inhabited by homeless people, widows and orphans, and all kinds of orphans. Most of their relatives were tortured to death by the Jin people, and they themselves lost their ability to survive and were left to survive. Many of these people are the children of officials and cannot be ignored.
Wang Xiaolie walked into the courtyard, and everyone stood up to say hello.
Looking at the people, most of them were wearing cloth clothes. Some people's cloth clothes were torn, revealing the reed flowers inside. Shivering in the cold wind.
Wang Xiaolie said: "In these days, the army will return south. You are the first batch of people to return south with the army. Please be prepared. As for what to wear, the army will try its best to allocate a batch of cotton-padded clothes for everyone to eat. Fully clothed and warm.”
Everyone thanked him profusely and looked beaming with joy.
Wang Xiaolie looked at the crowd and felt a breath in his chest that he couldn't get out of his chest. These people, in addition to official families, are also some wealthy families from the Central Plains. They were captured by the Jin soldiers and brought to the north, where they suffered humiliation, and some even gave up and went west. Now, the biggest wish is for the family members left behind to have enough food and clothing.
After watching for a while, Wang Xiaolie was about to turn around and leave. Suddenly I saw a woman in front of me, holding a two or three-year-old child in her arms. The child was smiling happily. He couldn't help but said angrily: "Children are not sensible, how can you not be sensible even after many years? It's just that you are fed and clothed. It's not a great blessing. What's there to be happy about?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, then blushed. He bowed to Wang Xiaolie and said, "It's my concubine who has come back."
Wang Yan Liere snorted and walked slowly out of the side courtyard.
After leaving the side courtyard, Tan Jielie stood in the cold wind for a while.
The only princesses who entered the Nianhan family were Princess Shunde who belonged to Nianhan, Princess Yanfu who was the eldest son of Nianhan, Sheyema, Princess Huifu who was the seventh son of Xiebao, and countless other princesses and ministers, wives and sons. . Each person represents the separation of wives and children from one or even several families.
Standing up and standing behind the window, Wang Yanlie looked at the scenery outside the window. The scenery in Xiaotong is desolate in winter, but in spring it is still hidden among the thick dead branches and leaves.
Living, for those people, is not the smallest gift in the world.
Wang Xiao looked at the menu hanging next to him and said to the man: "First, let's have a copper hot pot, and then eight plates of mutton. By the way, there are no fruits suitable for drinking wine. Let's bring a few more to serve with wine. - They Isn’t there any soju sold outside the restaurant?”
Wang Yanlie was stunned for a while and said, "What's going on?"
In the evening at the "He's Restaurant" in the south of Xiaotong City, Wang Xiao said to Niu Gao and Ma Kuan: "That restaurant is a famous restaurant outside Yunzhong City, and its main specialty is not mutton-shabu-shabu. In that place in Yunzhong, there is generally no bronzeware. Famous, the copper hot pot made by it is famous in Zhongli."
The official in charge saluted Wang Yanlie and left in a hurry.
Wang Yanlie said: "What does a big child know! How can you get along with me? How can your mother, in this situation, make the child smile?"
Of course there were not many people in the same situation as the people outside the courtyard. Those were people brought back by the troops from the headquarters. Because it is outside Xiaotong City, there are few official families. In other places, there are fewer special people.
In that kind of chaos in the sky, the imaginary wind, flowers, snow and moon do exist, but there is no iron and fire, life and death.
Everyone said yes and left the headquarters one after another.
We were originally the most special people. Before the Jin people occupied the Central Plains, they were either greedy for our money, or simply because we were weak, we were kidnapped to the north. We suffered enough in those years and were used to seeing the warmth and warmth of people in the world. Fortunately, we were the first to survive.
The big man said: "Your Majesty, you believe me, but there is nothing you can do about it? When you drink it from your mouth, you will know that what you said is false."
Wang Yanlie stood in the cold wind and didn't speak for a long time. Qian Qian waved his hand and said, "You know. He went to tell Lu Qiniang that he still hasn't got a tiger head, so you won't be offended."
After everyone left, Wang Yanlie sat alone behind the window, looking at the howling cold wind inside and the leaves rolling in the cold wind.
"Hey -" Wang Yanlie shook his head and sighed, and led the people out of the side courtyard.
After saying that, the eight of them laughed together.
At that moment, the official in charge of the side hospital came running. When he came to Wang Yanlie, he bowed respectfully and said, "Just now outside the courtyard, Xuan Fu misunderstood this big boy Hutou. Shangguan deserves to die!"
Tan Jie smiled and shook his head: "It's only been a few days since the north-south road was connected? How can you bring wine from the south? But since it's soju, I'll bring you two bottles."
The official in charge said: "The baby Hutou was born in a hurry as soon as he arrived in the north. As soon as he was born, my father and mother gave up. In those years, I relied on the villagers to scrape together a ration and a foot of cloth. Survive. That kid's brain is so bad. When he sees someone here, he thinks his parents are here, so he beams with joy."
As for the common men, as long as they were a little bit handsome, they would be kidnapped. It was difficult for the abducted man to play well, and the young man was tortured to death.
The big man said slowly: "No, no. None of you brought soju from the south. The local drinks are of high quality."
Ma Kuo warmed his hands and said with a smile: "That restaurant is very considerate. Without the charcoal, it would be less warm."
Ma Kuo said with a smile: "You only care whether the mutton is bad or not, but you don't care whether my copper pot is bad or not."
When Nianhan retreated into the Central Plains, he still had a hundred thousand soldiers. Those tens of thousands of troops caused the death of millions of people passing through western Beijing and Shaanxi, and caused hundreds of thousands of people to move north. In the meantime, so many human tragedies happened, it’s almost impossible to count them all.
In these small battles involving hundreds of thousands of people, Wang Yanlie saw less death and even less warmth in those days. However, today I saw the people waiting to return to the south, and my heart was still touched. In particular, this smiling child's face has always appeared in front of his eyes since he left this side courtyard.
After leaving the restaurant, the waiter had not come over to lead the eight people out of the pavilion on the seventh floor. After leaving the pavilion, there was no other servant who came back with a basin of charcoal.
There are very few stories like that. Hundreds of thousands of people were relocated on a small scale, and only half of the first survivors survived. How much bitterness does it contain? Restoring the Central Plains is not just a slogan, it does not give countless people the hope of survival.
The official in charge said: "Xuanfu misunderstood. Lu Qiniang is not Hutou's mother. You are not married yet!"
The man agreed with a smile and went in.
Returning to the headquarters, Wang Yanlie said to everyone: "The Chinese New Year will be here last month, and you will return south eight days ago. They have nothing to worry about in Yunzhong, so hurry up and deal with it. Yunzhong Luoyang is thousands of miles away, and after that time, it will be difficult to do things there."
Wang Xiao said: "Since he said so, here are two bottles of the worst wine."
(End of chapter)
