0869 The Heavens Are Alive
Abandoning one's family and business and leaving one's hometown is a pain that is difficult for the people to face, but once they accept it, it may not be an unbearable desperate situation.
Especially for Wang Xue, almost half of his not long life has been spent in this kind of turmoil, and other people in the dock wall may not have his rich experience of several times, but in fact, most of them are also migrated from the side, so when they recognize this reality, or cry and sigh a few words, and then they all tidy up their belongings and embark on the road.
The scale of the entire dock wall is not large, one hundred and ten households, although Wang Xue was elected as the leader, but there is actually no strict jurisdiction for these people. So on the first day of leaving the dock wall, nearly a third of them left this small team. These people who left either had more strength in their families and did not want to be dragged down by the old and weak in the team, or they had accumulated more family property in the dock wall and did not want to share it with others.
Wang Xue is just an injured and sick old man, because of some means of making a living, he can attract the intimacy of others, which is really not very prestige. Those people want to leave, and he can't help it. He is not a very wise man, but he has experience and understands that the meaning of the existence of the dock wall is not to provide shelter, but to make people feel hindered and excused. If they don't find a temporary place to live soon, their small team will soon fall apart.
People in troubled times are like water, flowing on the flat ground and constantly bifurcating, a little pit can converge, those who divert out may merge into other streams, or dissipate without a trace, only as much as possible to gather more, in order to delay the extinction.
Wang Xue and their luck were relatively good, not long after entering the water, they found a meadow with a large area, and there were some remnants of houses in the meadow, probably because there were homeless people who lived here before, but the original residents and houses have long been gone, leaving only some traces. After discovering these traces, a group of people were greatly inspired, and since someone had lived here, it meant that they could continue to live here as well.
So this is their new foothold, although this is only the outer edge of Mizusawa, but it is actually safe enough. Because they are really worthless to attract those soldiers to continue to expand the search, once the original dock wall is gone, then they will soon be forgotten.
The meadow environment is good, a large number of shallow ponds and reeds, and even more than a dozen acres of thin land have been reclaimed, and some grass grains are planted at the same time, so it is not difficult to feed their group of hundreds of people. Surviving is sometimes difficult to climb to the sky, and sometimes it is a very simple thing.
There is a rebel army in Zeye, which was told to Wang Xue and the others by the cavalry who found the dock wall earlier, and the cruelty of the rebel army is extremely exaggerated. This is also one of the reasons why many villagers choose to leave on the way, they do not think that Irisawa is a good choice, and it is very likely that they will be ravaged by the chaotic army, so they choose a way out that they think is better.
Although Wang Xue and a group of people were really inconspicuous in this vast Daze, in the first winter after they entered the Ze, the grass and trees withered and the shade was reduced, and they were still discovered by the rebel army. But the rebels did not kill them, nor did they take them captive, and they did not pay any attention to them until they were known to be displaced people fleeing from the nearby countryside, leaving them to fend for themselves, not even touching their winter rations.
At that time, there was no shortage of panic among the villagers, thinking that they were going to die, and after the catastrophe, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and then scolded the so-called Wang Shi, who forced them to flee from their hometowns earlier, was not even as good as the rebel army, and the rebel army at least left them a way to live, without harming each other.
Hearing these curses from the villagers, Wang Xue just smiled and didn't speak, in the past many years, he had a chaotic life, and he didn't even know which side he was following, but one thing was certain, Wang Shi he had also done it, and he had also done it in the chaos.
The cavalry kings who drove them out of their habitat were not necessarily bad, and the rebels who found them abandoned were not necessarily good. In other words, they're just weeds on the sidelines, and they're not even qualified to show the soldiers whether they're good or bad, and they don't deserve it. Because whether it was the rebel army or the Wang Division, Wang Xue was once one of them, and he also treated other homeless people like this.
Earlier, the lion opened his mouth and asked them for food that was impossible to take out, if those people really intended to be here, it would be better to rob them directly at that time, and there was really no need to leave them time to raise it, even if they were given more time, they would not be able to raise it. So the intention of those people was just to drive them away and drive them into Daze. Therefore, knowing that there was a chaotic army in Ze, Wang Xue still chose to lead the crowd into Daze, because if he escaped to other places, it would be a real dead end.
After these people entered Daze, they were equivalent to eyes and ears, and they could make the rebel army hidden in the depths of Nozawa panic and have nothing to hide.
The reason why the rebels did not kill them or take them captive was to keep them as their eyes and ears, and secondly, they did not have much oil and water to extract. Between the king and the rebels, they were a buffer zone, and if there was any disturbance on either side, they would be alarmed, and on the other hand, they could guess the enemy's movements through their commotions.
Therefore, they can only exist as weeds to observe the direction of the wind, and once they have some value beyond this effect, they will be eaten by one side at a time.
After surviving the harsh winter, before the arrival of warm spring, there were more and more soldiers around Nozawa, and there were frequent conflicts and fights. The rebel army and Wang Shi had a tacit understanding that they chose to sweep the outskirts of Heze at this point in time, and Wang Xue and their small group of refugees were swept deeper by the rebel army. The bitter cold of winter is a test, and in addition to luck, there will be some unique means of making a living that can survive. It would be a pity to see it as a weed in the wind.
Wang Xue is no stranger to this process, and even he himself has participated in it several times. He knew very well that as long as they could get through this period of hardship, then they would be eligible to join a certain party. Therefore, before the sweep, he led the crowd to take the initiative to migrate inward, choosing to move closer to the rebel army.
It's not that he is more identified with the rebels, both sides are the same dog. He also does not have the luxury of hoping that he can enjoy this for a long time, but judging from past experience, the weaker side will generally treat the people more gently. He doesn't care about himself, but now that he has a wife and daughter, he has bonds, and he is no longer in the prime of life, so he naturally chooses the one in a better situation.
Sure enough, when I arrived at the new resettlement site, the situation was not too bad. It was a huge stockade, and by the time they arrived, it had gathered nearly a thousand refugees in similar circumstances. The rebel army did not push them to a dead end, and the rest were placed in the stockade. There are farmland, mulberry gardens, hemp beds, and so on in the stockade for them to work in. As for the food and goods produced, they are collected regularly, and although there is not much food left for them, the harvest of fishing and gathering other than farming and weaving can be preserved by themselves.
Without the intrusion of military disasters, they can work and produce steadily, and they can also get some food to make ends meet, for these tormented people, it is already the best life imaginable in their lives.
In such an environment, Wang Xue shines brightly, and his fishing and hunting skills are among the best even among these refugees with their own livelihood skills. In order to provide enough security for his wife and daughter, he did not hide his ability, using his spare time to set nets and fish, and every time he harvested a lot, but every day he only left enough for his own food, and the rest was given to the outside.
Soon, Wang Xue gained a lot of popularity in the stockade, and even attracted the attention of the commander of the rebellious army, he was exempted from ordinary labor, and many Ding Zhuang were arranged under his command to specialize in fishing and hunting. Gradually, he became a lieutenant in the rebellious army, and his men were in charge of hundreds of men, and they haunted the water meadows every day to fish for food. There is a lot of water in this area, and at most it can catch thousands of catties of fish and shrimp a day.
And Wang Xue also became famous in the chaotic army because of this credit, and some generals in the chaotic army even personally met and wooed him, and from this he finally knew that the name of the leader of their chaotic army was Liu Zheng, the general of Xuzhou and Fubo under the command of King Wei of Zhao State. In this official title, whether it is the assassin or the general, for Wang Xue, it is as far away as a star in the sky. But he was actually received by this great man in person, and was given a half-worn armor.
"There is righteousness in the recklessness, and the husband's prestige does not need to be relied upon to kill the enemy alone. Raise the army with heart, and the king's achievements in the coming days will be successful, and you will be able to praise the marquis! ”
The great big man smiled and patted Wang Xue's fishy shoulder and encouraged.
Wang Xue knelt down and thanked her, her face full of gratitude, but her heart sank suddenly. The world is chaotic, he doesn't understand the rise and fall of the general trend, but he knows his catties and two, he is becoming more and more eye-catching in the chaotic army, making the surrounding viewers extremely envious, but every conspicuous point, his mood is a bad point, he is not arrogant, but with his little trick can actually mix his head, you can imagine that this chaotic army is really not a big deal.
After being received by General Liu Zheng, Wang Xue no longer worked full-time fishing, but was responsible for guarding several warehouses of the rebel army, and the soldiers assigned to him also became brave. No matter how much her status improves, Wang Xue can't be happy, and she feels that an invisible butcher knife above her head is slowly falling.
One day, Wang Xue suddenly received a military order to lead the people to urgently evacuate the island he was defending. The island has two barns, three stockades, and more than 2,000 men, women, and children. Although he didn't know the meaning of the military order, Wang Xue didn't dare to question it, and quickly gathered the soldiers to leave. Soon after they left, they saw two warships on the other side of the island headed for the island, and soon the island was filled with figures running and howling, and then billowing smoke.
Seeing this scene, Wang Xue was not full of joy in his heart, if he hadn't been notified to evacuate first, he and his more than 300 soldiers would have been blocked on the island and fought bloodily. At the same time, there was no lack of suspicion in his heart, how could five or six hundred enemy troops in two ships get deep into the island, how could they approach the island so quietly?
On the way to evacuate, another warship appeared, and the flag was a friendly army, and it was only when he got close to find that the leader of the troops was a general he knew, and Wang Xue breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Divert, keep up!"
The five ships on the opposite side are not small in scale, plus Wang Xue's three here, and more ships have joined along the way, gradually forming a fleet with more than 2,000 soldiers. Wang Xue also inquired about the nearby ships, but she couldn't tell where she was going.
As night fell, the rebel army landed on a shady pier on the outskirts of Nozawa, and the general and his men quickly disappeared into the night. Soon, a few miles away in the dark night flickered with fire.
"Hurry ashore, kill the laggards!"
The cronies left by the general raised their swords one after another, staring at Wang Xue and the other soldiers. Although everyone was still in the dark at the moment, they did not dare to slack off after seeing this, and they all went ashore and lined up to rush to the firelight under the leadership of others.
It was a dock wall of a large scale, built on the mountain, when Wang Xue and others arrived, the inside and outside of the dock wall gate was already in flames, and the fire had spread to the wooden fence. There were still figures running and fleeing inside and outside the firelight, and the soldiers of the chaotic army who rushed in first had already rushed into the fight.
"You don't have to go there, the warehouse behind the village, go and move it quickly, don't leave anything behind!"
The general's hood was stained with blood, and his face was splattered with blood, and behind him were several women in disheveled hair, being held hostage by their own soldiers. In the flickering firelight, the general's teeth were shining, like the sharp teeth of a fierce beast: "You can also hide it privately when transporting, just be careful if it will be discovered!" ”
Wang Xue and the others did not dare to slack off, and under the leadership of the general's troops, they toppled down the wall of fire and ran to the back of the village. By the time they arrived at the scene, several connected barns had been opened, and the ground was full of corpses, and the barns flowed with white grains of rice, salt, and a large pile of silk silk that glowed in the light of the fire, and many other goods, all of which were scarce supplies in Nozawa.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers couldn't help but gasp, unable to believe the picture in front of them. Without the urging of others, all of them poured into the warehouse, and when they touched the real thing with both hands, they were finally sure that it was not a dream, and they all let out a howl of ecstasy.
Wang Xue didn't squeeze into the warehouse at the first time, not because he wasn't moved by foreign objects, but after he picked up a life on the battlefield a few years ago, his physique has not been good. Backward outside, he had time to look at the surroundings of the dock wall, there was no moon in the night, and he couldn't make out the specifics, but he could see the outline of a strangely shaped mountain peak in the distance.
The mountain was not high, but it was steep, like a blade. Because of the strange shape, Wang Xue had no lack of impression of this, and after a little thought in his mind, his face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly grabbed one of the general's cronies and said: "There is an enemy camp on this mountain, the scale is not small, I led the crowd to fish and hunt here earlier, was ambushed, and lost nearly 100 lives!" Quickly report to the general, this may be a trap ......"
When the cronie heard this, his eyebrows twitched, and then he grinned, looking at Wang Xue like a fool, but when he saw the armor style on the other party's body, he still swallowed the sarcastic words that came to his mouth, and just replied: "Don't worry, the captain has his own wisdom." ”
When Wang Xue heard this, she was stunned for a moment. After a while, he suddenly remembered the military order he had received during the day, and his face instantly became extremely ugly, and the corpses around the warehouse at his feet seemed to come to life, dancing in the sea of fire one by one, and a desperate roar came out of his mouth, just like the scene he saw on the island during the day.
Then, his face showed a look like crying and laughing, cold sweat poured out from under the heavy armor, and he felt even more like a joke, although he was wearing the armor of a soldier, but under the skin it was still a monkey who acted like a scholar. Born in troubled times, there is really no need to complain, no matter how tragic the fate is, it is self-inflicted, just because you can't learn the cruel heart and killing methods of others.
The dock wall was so well stocked that it took most of the night to fill the boats with it, but there were still many loads left. The general appeared again and ordered the participating soldiers to take as much as they could.
Wang Xue was still confused at the moment, but her hands and feet were paralyzed, looking at the soldiers who were forgetful of the robbery, but the corners of her mouth were full of ridicule, and she didn't know who she was for.
When the sky was bright, the rebels returned with a full load, Wang Xue was in a mood at this time, and when all the goods on the ship were stored in the warehouse, and there was no other military order, he gathered his soldiers and placed them in a temporary camp, and then took the two subordinates to go home. Although he did not participate in the final robbery, as a captain, he naturally had people to offer, several zhang of silk, more than a dozen bags of japonica rice, and some refined salt, all piled up on the cart, and the two subordinates followed closely behind.
The rebels did not have a fixed camp, and the commander's family was scattered between several islands in the depths. Wang Xue is not a very conspicuous general in the chaotic army, but there is no shortage of people and land here, so he was also assigned a small courtyard and seven or eight households on a certain island.
"Grandpa, grandpa is back......"
A handsome little lady in a linen shirt beside the stream was playing with several girls of the same size, and when she saw Wang Xue coming, she immediately smiled and waved her arms to meet her.
When Wang Xue saw this scene, her mood became soft and cheerful, and she suddenly saw a little fire flashing out from behind the little lady's running figure, her face suddenly changed, she grabbed the saber at her waist with her palm, and roared loudly: "Come quickly, come to Grandpa!" ”
When the little lady saw this scene, her expression was suspicious, she turned her head to look behind her, and her body was pulled behind her by Wang Xue, and then she saw Grandpa's old face full of iron blue, standing in front of her with a fierce momentum, as if there was danger approaching in the open space in front of her.
"Ah, grandpa......"
"Nothing, nothing. Grandpa is tired, tired......"
Wang Xue came back to her senses, shook her head and smiled bitterly, bent down to sweep away the grass clippings stained by the little lady's clothes, looked at the delicate little face that was not lacking in suspicion, and said with a smile: "My lady is really unusual, grandpa is going to be attentive and choose a good son-in-law for my little lady." ”
This father and daughter have no blood relationship, and at this moment they are walking side by side to the door, and the picture is very beautiful. The woman walked out of the door with a bamboo basket, after seeing this scene, the wrinkled face was also filled with a glittering smile, she walked forward, saw the cart pushed by the subordinates, first was happy, but then saw the blood stains on Wang Xue's armor, and there was no lack of melancholy, stepped forward to take the pocket in Wang Xue's hand, sighed: "There is enough food at home, don't, don't be tired of yourself......"
"No, no, it's dirty."
Wang Xue withdrew the shackle behind him, not wanting the woman to touch it, and he relied on each other for several years, and he was still ashamed and grateful to see the woman, this woman not only saved his life, but also made him understand what he should live for. Seeing the melancholy on the woman's face, he awkwardly wiped the blood stains on the front breastplate, and said with a smile: "Someone else's is someone else's......"
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