Back at the village, Li Yue felt cold all over and dizzy.
After a continuous fight, he was exposed to heavy rain for nearly two hours. The heavy rain in May still brought a chill. If he hadn't been physically strong, he would have been sick long ago.
In his daze, he felt a pair of soft little hands wiping his body.
He was given hot soup again.
After taking care of him all night, Li Yue was sweating profusely at noon on the second day, and he felt better.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Yue Ji lying tiredly on the edge of the bed and falling asleep.
You don't need to think about it to know that she took care of him all night last night.
Scanning the room, Li Yue was stunned, feeling like he was dreaming.
There are bright and clean windows, a spotless bamboo floor with carpets, two screens with paintings of ladies standing on the left and right, and a chi-patterned copper stove in the middle of the room, with green smoke rising from it and a delicate fragrance.
Several wooden tables were neatly piled with bamboo slips, as many as half the room. There was actually a yellowed paper book on one of the wooden tables.
There is also a piece of calligraphy posted on the wall, and there are all kinds of luxurious things...
The house is not only luxurious, but also a bit too spacious. It can accommodate forty or fifty people without any problem.
This house naturally belongs to Zhao Guang. Although he is a bandit leader, he loves to be arty. He usually likes to dress up as a Confucian scholar. He wears a Confucian robe and often wears a nondescript crown to show his identity.
I don’t know if Zhao Guang, who has become a dead ghost, can read or not.
A person's character can often be seen in his style of life. With so many people on the mountain complaining of hunger and cold, Zhao Guang seized every opportunity to enjoy it. No wonder he surrendered to the Jie people in exchange for glory and wealth.
Li Yue glanced at it briefly, not interested in spending time on these things.
Walking lightly to the outside of the house, two tall men stood guard in front of the door with swords in hand. When they saw Li Yue, they looked in reverence.
The heavy rain has stopped, but the sky is still gloomy and moist water vapor is everywhere.
"Have you found Leader Meng?" Without any news about Meng Kai, Li Yue's heart always felt hanging.
The two guards looked at each other, obviously these things were not something they could know, "No, I don't know."
At this moment, Zhou Qian came over and said, "I'm glad to say that Leader Li is safe and sound."
"Have you found my brother?"
Zhou Qian cupped his hands and said, "Leader Cui led a search in Nanshan last night, but he still hasn't returned yet!"
It's been a night and a morning, and I still haven't found it, so there's not much hope.
Li Yue felt uncomfortable in his heart.
Zhou Qian comforted him: "Meng, the leader of the Ji people, has his own destiny. If no body is found, it means that the person is still alive."
That’s all I can think of.
The chance of the Jie people capturing him was low. Based on the battlefield environment at that time, if the Jie people caught him, they would definitely retaliate directly.
Meng Kai is not a big shot and has no value in bringing him back.
Since he was not captured by the Jie people and no body was found, there is only one possibility: Meng Kai left on his own...
Staying on the mountain, the conflict with himself will only intensify, because he is also an ambitious person.
He had a bad relationship with the beggar army, but he saved Bo Wu and defeated the Jie people, which greatly increased his reputation. He was caught in the middle, so naturally he felt uncomfortable.
Li Yue sighed in his heart, recalling Meng Kai's lonely back before the war. Maybe at that time, he had the intention to leave.
"How many casualties were there on the mountain?"
As long as Meng Kai is still alive, everything will be fine and there will always be a time to see each other again.
Zhou Qian came to report this matter, "773 people were killed in each department, 1,600 were lightly or seriously injured, 619 were killed, 57 were captured, and armor, swords, spears, bows and arrows were seized. There are more than 3,000 pieces of shields, including 530 sets of armor!"
The total number of tribesmen in the entire Black Cloud Mountain was less than 3,000. Nearly 800 were killed and nearly 2,000 were injured. Basically everyone was injured...
This is still under the circumstances of the right time and place...
Li Yue felt heartbroken. The price was quite heavy. He still didn't know if the seriously injured people could be saved. "For the cottage matter, we have Chief Lao Zhou to deal with. Please hurry up and treat the injured soldiers."
Zhou Qian bowed his hands like a subordinate and said, "Don't worry, leader."
In such a short time, he can count the data to single digits and memorize it by heart, which already shows his ability.
There is no shortage of reckless men with swords these days, but there is a great shortage of talents like Zhou Qian.
Later generations often said that to govern the world, only one county's talents are enough, and there are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers on Heiyun Mountain.
Li Yue and his people rushed to the wounded soldiers' house.
The house was still dirty, and upon entering, I could smell a musty and rancid smell.
Many people didn't even have a straw mat, so they just lay on the wet ground with numb eyes, as if they had given up on themselves.
It wasn't until they saw Li Yue coming that everyone's eyes became warmer and brighter.
"Leader!"
"Fortress Master!"
The wounded soldiers shouted in surprise, and some had tears in their eyes.
These people did not frown when facing the well-equipped and ferocious Jie Nu on the battlefield, but they shed tears at this time.
Li Yue was greatly moved for a moment, "As long as I, Li Yue, am here, I won't ignore you!"
The wounded soldiers were overjoyed and became grateful.
"Clean out Zhao Guang's house and use it as a hospital room. Then make some meat porridge and boil some hot water."
Li Yue really couldn't get used to living in Zhao Guang's house.
Firstly, things belonging to dead people are too unlucky, and secondly, being too luxurious can easily corrode fighting spirit.
When people enjoy more, they are less willing to risk their lives...
Now Li Yue has spoken out, and there are many people who can help him.
The house was quickly cleared, and the sick and injured were moved to Zhao Guang's house with the help of their family members.
The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Several houses around Zhao Guang's house are good, and they are all used as wards.
Everything inside had been cleared out, straw mats had been laid on the bamboo floor, and the carpet was used as a bedding. Zhao Guang's big bed was given to Bo Wu, the most seriously injured, at Li Yue's suggestion.
A lot of things were obtained from Zhao Guang's house and cellar.
Money, silk, gold, silver, salt, wine, etc., and the most excessive amount was more than a thousand stones of millet and beans. No wonder all his men had rosy complexions. It turned out that they had hidden private goods.
With these things, half of the urgent need for food shortage in the mountains has been relieved.
He took everything he could use, and Li Yue kept the books for himself. In troubled times, these things were precious, and he still had to look through them when he had time.
"What a pity..." Yue Ji muttered behind her with a look of reluctance.
She is literate and has good medical skills, so she is certainly not a child of an ordinary family.
"Born in sorrow, died in happiness, before it was time to enjoy." Li Yue did not want to follow in the footsteps of the ghost Zhao Guang.
Wouldn't it be better to use his things to win people's hearts?
Yue Ji said gently: "What the leader said is true."
There were more than a thousand wounded, and those who could stand had already stood up.
However, there are still seven to eight hundred people, and it is obvious that Li Yue and Yue Ji cannot handle so many people.
So I simply selected young women with quick hands and feet from the family members and divided them into two groups, Li Yue in the group and Yue Ji in the group, and watched and learned.
The slightly injured ones were soldered directly with a soldering iron after cleaning.
The wounds were sewn only for serious injuries.
Some of them hurt internal organs, and without numbing pain, the pain could kill someone.
Moreover, people struggle and tremble when in severe pain, so surgery is impossible.
Li Yue sighed in his heart and could only simply bandage it and resign himself to fate.
However, these wounded people all knew what was going on and had already given up on life and death. They only asked Li Yue to take good care of their parents and children.
"Don't worry, everyone, from now on, your parents and children will no longer suffer from hunger or cold."
When I said these words, I actually didn’t have much confidence in my heart.
Who can say clearly what is going on in this world?
It's just a matter of taking one step at a time.
However, when Li Yue said these words, Bo Wu, who had been sleeping in bed, moved his eyelids...
