Chapter 22: Cannibalism

The famous Duke of Jin Wen Chong'er ate the thigh meat of his loyal courtiers; At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the peasant rebel army ate meat; At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Red Eyebrow Army and the Green Forest Army ate meat; In the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao, a generation of heroes, walked back every time he marched and fought, and brought a large number of people as military rations; At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Bo loved to eat people's hearts and livers; Then I bloomed and killed the so-called generation of male lord Huang Chao of the Great Qi Emperor, called a two-legged sheep, every time he attacked a certain city for a long time, and the military rations could not be helped, Huang Chao ordered to capture the people everywhere and throw them into the giant mill and grind them into flesh and mud plasma. As for whether to make buns and dumplings or meatballs, it is unknown.

Not to mention these, even now in the land of the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of cannibalism is definitely not uncommon.

A few years ago, there was a great drought in Shaanxi, and the bark, grass roots, and even Guanyin soil were eaten up, and at that time, every time the parents changed their children and ate, and some parents who felt sorry for their children would tell their children before they starved to death: "When I die, eat me, so that I can survive." ”

Although, although, despite knowing a lot, when Dong Ce saw this scene with his own eyes, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and he felt cold all over his body.

It's a man-eater!

He seemed to stiffen as he sat on the horse, and Shi Jin's faces were also ugly. They finally knew why Uncle Zhou was so pale.

Although the surrounding environment is so harsh and dangerous, there is a small river passing through it for ten miles, and it can be regarded as producing 'one' book and reading 'novel' ybdu every year, and there will be no people starving to death in it, how many people don't have a way to live, right?

Even if they were well-informed, they were shocked to see the scene of the person eating people in front of them.

Wang Hun, a muddy person, was stunned at first, and then the two bulls' eyes were stunned, and he roared: "You pickled birds, you dare to eat people, are you fucking human!" ”

After that, he waved the fist the size of the wine jar and smashed it on the face of a person next to him, the person was caught off guard, and immediately let him hit the upper body back, and the whole person fell to the ground, and his head happened to hit a stone, and the blood flowed for a long time, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Seeing this scene, almost all the homeless people stood up and looked in the direction of Wang Hun, their wooden and dull eyes suddenly radiated a greedy light, and Wang Hun couldn't help but feel uncomfortable for a while. I don't know who shouted, but everyone was like a nest of big-headed flies, rushing towards Wang Hun.

With so many people rushing over, Wang Hun couldn't help but take a few steps back, he was Hun, but he was not a fool, and he also knew the truth that two fists were invincible to four hands.

Dong Ce also turned over and dismounted, preparing to support Wang Hun.

But he didn't expect that those homeless people were not going for him at all, but directly rushed to the unconscious homeless who didn't know whether he was dead or alive, surrounded him with water, and then heard a sound of teething limbs and hard objects touching inside, and blood splashed everywhere. There seemed to be a commotion in the crowd, and there was a quarrel, but it was quickly quelled.

After a while, the crowd dispersed, revealing a mutilated corpse, except for the head and part of the torso, which did not have much flesh, and the other limbs with a little flesh were missing.

There were dark red blood stains everywhere on the ground, and the stones in the hands of many homeless people were stained with blood.

Those limbs appeared in the hands of the outcasts.

Snatching all their limbs, they scattered, each returned to his own pot, and threw the meat in his hand.

Obviously, there were several small groups of people in this group of displaced people, groups of three or five, and they did not know what kind of ties they were connected by - it could be a family, it could be a few friends. It's just that at this time, no one is reliable, and when you are in it, you will feel that everyone is staring at you, just waiting for you to fall, and then rush up and eat you!

Everyone is like this, no wonder the indifference and numbness are extreme.

The meat in the pot seemed to be cooked, exuding a strange smell, and Dong Ce had completely calmed down.

The situation is like this, what can I do about it?

He instructed Wang Tong, "Go and call that tamper back." ”

Wang Hun also lost his breath and walked back with his head drooping.

This change made everyone silent, and when they went to the limelight, they tried not to smell the smell that made people tumble in their stomachs.

"Okay, don't even think about it, this kind of thing, I'm afraid it will only be more in the future, not less."

Dong Ce sat cross-legged on the ground, took out the dry food from the baggage, and said with a smile: "Maybe there will be a day when we are hungry and can't eat people, and we can only bear it when the time comes." ”

Zhou Zhong said with a bitter face: "Dong Tou'er, don't say it, my stomach is churning." ”

Wang Hun also recovered at this time, and patted Zhou Zhong on the shoulder: "Tuesday, you can't do this, we heard that human flesh is delicious and tight......

Zhou Zhong's face was already pale, and Dong Ce smiled: "I don't know if it's delicious or not, anyway, it is said that Zhang Xianzhong's troops call human flesh Xiangmeat, which means that they still want to eat after eating." ”

"Zhang Xianzhong? The traitor Gao Yingxiang's subordinates broke into the eight kings, Zhang Xianzhong? Shi Jin's eyes lit up and he asked.

Dong Ce nodded, and before he could speak, Zhou Zhong was already full of disbelief: "Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, didn't they say that they would open a warehouse and release grain to help the people?" How can you eat people? ”

As soon as his words fell, Zhou Bo lowered his voice and scolded fiercely: "Second brother, what kind of nonsense are you talking about!" Can this be said casually? Don't even mention the name of the traitor! ”

Zhou Zhong was obviously very unconvinced, glared at Zhou Bo fiercely, and reluctantly lowered his head, not knowing what he was muttering.

Everyone reacted separately, all of them were in Dong Ce's eyes, and he said lightly: "What the traitor said may not be able to fully believe, and what the government said may not be wrong, the court is doing a lot of bad, and it also has its own hardships. These are not things we can discuss, let's eat, continue to hurry after eating, and rush to Anxiangdun before dark. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhou Zhong lightly.

Zhou Zhong's heart sank, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to speak anymore.

"Yes!" Several people answered, took out dry food and nibbled on it.

However, I smoked the taste of the human flesh before, and it was strange that my appetite could be better now, so I only ate a little hastily.

In the middle, Wang Tong said that it was convenient, and he came back after a while, sneakily came to Dong Ce's side, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "Dong Tou'er, look at what I brought back." ”

As he spoke, he took something out of his bosom and handed it over.

"What is this?" Dong Ce took it and took a look, but it was a piece of paper that had been folded a few times, he shook it open and saw that this paper was three feet long and two feet wide, I don't know what material it was, it was very solid, and it was full of words.

"What is this?" Everyone gathered up to watch curiously. It's a pity that none of them are literate, they are all wide-eyed and small-eyed, and they don't know what is written on it.

Dong Ce ignored them, but read the above content carefully.

Although the paper is large, the font on it is also very large, but it is only a hundred and ten.

Dong Ce's face immediately became a little gloomy.

He asked Wang Tong, "Where did you get it?" ”

"I have already found out that the displaced people over there got it, they escaped from Baideng in the south, and Baideng had no harvest this year, so they had to come out and flee for their lives. They asked for food all the way, and they wanted to go to Xuanfu and Wanquan, but they just passed by us. As for these things...... Wang Tong smiled: "Many towns and county towns have stickers on the walls of the city gates, everywhere, and I don't know who did it, it seems that it is just a night's work, and they are all pasted, and they have encountered many times, and many people have hidden them." ”

"They don't know what's written on it?"

"How don't you know?!" Wang Daodao: "Literate people have read it, and they know that this is a big crime of killing their heads, but they are all greedy for this paper and are reluctant to throw it away." ”

"Really!" Dong Ce couldn't help laughing, and shook the paper in his hand: "It's a shame that we don't have time to pry them, otherwise, just rely on these pieces of paper, and we can take them all out of prison." It's a big achievement. ”

When Wang Tong heard this, he was really a little moved, and he was eager to try: "Boss, I want you to ...... us."

He bared his teeth and slashed his throat with his hand around his neck.

Dong Ce looked at him and said with a smile: "You really want to go?" ”

Wang Tong was in his heart, and quickly smiled, and said in a stacked voice: "I don't want to, I don't want to, just talk, just talk......"

"Dong Tou'er, what are you two playing dumb riddles?" The two of them are talking to themselves here, Shi Jin and the others have already heard the mud in their heads, and they are confused, they don't dare to ask Dong Ce, they don't have any scruples about Wang Tong, Wang Hun has already slapped Wang Tong on the back of the head: "Say it quickly!" ”

"Let's talk about it!"

Dong Ce pointed to the paper in his hand and said, "Do you know who wrote this letter?" ”

"Who wrote it?" Wang Hun's eyes widened.

Shi Jin already smiled and said, "Boss, don't hang us." ”

Brother Zhou Zhong also looked forward to it.

"Speaking of which, this is a big shot." Dong Ce said slowly: "Chief Houjinnu, Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji." ”

"Huang Taiji?"

Everyone let out a low exclamation, their faces full of surprise and shock.

The popularity of this name among the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era is not inferior to the popularity of George W. Bush among the Chinese people in a certain era.

The Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty had been in power for eight years, and had just abolished the old system of sitting side by side with the three major beylers in the previous two years, and since then he has sat alone in the south and held power. During his reign, he repeatedly went south to enter the Ming Dynasty, which brought profound disasters to the people of the Ming Dynasty, especially the border people, who were eager to eat their flesh and eat their blood.