Shi Jin and the others also hugged their arms and joked, obviously looking like they were watching a good show.

Wang Tong's cheeks have long been cultivated over the years, thick as the roots of the city wall, and he is not angry, and said with a smile: "You can still wear grasshoppers with grass stalks, we are not waste, everyone has a personal use." ”

He raised his head, patted his shriveled little chest without three taels of meat, and said with some pride: "If this ten-mile shop is well-informed, who can compare to us?" Is there anything I don't know about? We are not as good as the four kings and a few of you can fight, but you can't do these things such as serving tea and pouring water, inquiring about news, and running errands, right? ”

When these words came out, Shi Jin and the four of them were suddenly stunned and speechless. What Wang Tong said is not wrong at all, they are actually quite conceited in their hearts, it is no problem to fight and sell to death, but such miscellaneous things are really unwilling to be lowly to do.

Wang Tong smiled, and whispered to Dong Ce: "Erlang, I won't hide it from you, it's ten miles here, and I don't have any errands, and the fields handed down by my ancestors have now become Lord Xu's fields, even if I stay, I have to be a tenant for others, and I will suffer for a lifetime." It's better to go out with you and say something that makes you laugh, I think you can have a good time. ”

As he spoke, at that moment, Dong Ce saw a light in his eyes—it was something called ambition.

In fact, this kind of **,Anyone has it.,It's just that there are @一@本@Read @novelxstxt Some people are fighting for their ambitions.,And work hard.,And some people just think about it.。 And only a handful of those who fight for it succeed.

Dong Ce also has such a thing as ambition, and there are a lot of them.

He stared at Wang Tong and said word by word: "Follow me, it's not just as simple as doing chores, it's going to kill people!" ”

When Wang Tong heard this, his body trembled obviously, the light in his eyes flashed a few times, and his face finally became firm: "I'll go with you." ”

"Good! Then you follow me. Dong Ce pointed to the horse: "Lead the horse!" ”

"Leading the horse?"

Wang Tong was stunned at first, and then responded happily, he was not ashamed, put the small cloth bag on his shoulder, and walked in front of Dong Ce's horse reins.

The pale sun hung in the sky, emitting limited heat.

Due to the long-term drought, the soil on the ground is very fluffy, showing a tiresome gray-white color, and when people walk, they are startled by a puff of smoke.

Shilipu is twenty-nine miles away from Anxiangdun, which is not very far, and the fast horse gallops for an hour, but if you walk with your legs, it will take almost a whole day. What's more, at this time, there are no roads, and they are all trekking in the wilderness.

Dong Ce and the others had already left Shilipu for more than ten miles, and it was almost noon at this time.

This was the first time since he came to this era that he had left Shilipu, out of the river valley, the white sun sprinkled the land, the fields on all sides were empty and silent, and the wind howled and rolled up smoke and dust.

A desolate feeling came to his heart, Dong Ce looked around Siye, and couldn't help but feel a little stupid.

Although the weather was not hot, it was summer after all, and Shi Jin and the others were wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, and they were constantly hurrying, and they were already sweating on their foreheads at this time. It's Dong Ce, who didn't wear a battle jacket today, only a loose green robe, and the wind was blowing on the horse, which was a little comfortable.

He glanced ahead, and saw that there was a low hill not far away, and there seemed to be a bush of trees, so he said, "Let's go to the dirt mountain in front of us, Uncle Zhou, you go and explore." ”

"Yes, Dong Tou'er!" Uncle Zhou is very calm and sophisticated, and he doesn't talk much, so he just go.

He walked in a strange way, bending over and trotting forward, barely moving above the knees, with a small stride, but with a high frequency and speed, while the way he traveled was serpentine, crooked, not in a straight line.

Wang Hun grinned when he saw it: "Brother Zhou is good at everything, just walking like this, how can he always be like a thief, and those who don't know think he came to steal chickens." ”

Zhou Zhong was not angry, and smiled: "The eldest brother has been a night guard for more than ten years, and I am afraid that this problem will not be changed in a lifetime." ”

Shi Jin scolded Wang Hun with a smile: "It's always better than you, walking swaying three times, and you occupy all the streets." ”

Dong Ce saw that his heart moved slightly. Zhou Bo's way of traveling, if it is in the dark night, it is difficult to be discovered, and there are some traps or something, which can be easily avoided. Because of the small stride, sometimes you can even pull your leg back when you step into a trap.

"When the time comes, you must ask for advice, Zhou Bo has done so many Chinese New Year's Eve, these experiences are extremely valuable."

Dong Ce knows that he is low and his power is small, so he will not let go of all opportunities to strengthen himself.

Not long after, Zhou Bo came back.

His face was ugly, a little pale, and there was a strange expression in his eyes, as if he was pitying and hating.

"I can't tell you, so let's go and see for yourself!" Uncle Zhou only said one word, and he was as silent as a stuffy gourd.

Dong Ce and the others were all surprised, so they hurried over to see.

When we got closer to the low hill, I could hear a commotion of people behind me, mixed with quarrels and curses.

The low hill is only about ten meters high, and there is a forest on top of it, but the forest has become smooth - all the leaves and bark are gone, and only the smooth trunk is poked there, white and flowery, like a pile of white skeletons, which is extremely sad and weird.

Rounding the hill, I saw about fifty or sixty men gathered in front of the woods, men, women, children, women and children, who were dividing themselves into piles, and in the center of each pile was a cauldron with a fire burning below. The contents seemed to be cooked, making a gurgling sound.

Hearing the movement, these people all stood up and looked over here.

Standing up, Dong Ce saw it clearly, they were all ragged, skinny, yellow and thin, and a few of them were even hungry.

"Isn't it a homeless person, why is Brother Zhou'er's face ......like a ghost," Shi Jin muttered lowly.

"This is a homeless person...... Dong Ce looked at those people with blank faces and dull eyes, and sighed softly.

By the year of Chongzhen, the decline of this last dynasty had been fully revealed, and the nationwide drought caused by the Xiaoice River period had a severe reduction in agricultural production, which had a devastating impact on the agriculture of the Ming Dynasty and the small yeoman peasant class who depended on the one-third of an acre of land for their livelihood. Grain production decreased, the imperial court continued to levy miscellaneous taxes of various names, taxes increased instead of decreasing, the peasants could not survive, and the whole cycle was as simple as that. The climate in Shanxi and Shaanxi is already arid, and it has become a hard-hit area, and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang and other big bandits and thieves all started in Shaanxi.

The peasants could no longer survive, so they had to leave their hometowns to beg for work, and in this land, homeless people were no longer uncommon.

Dong Ce saw it for the first time, and when he saw them like this, he was slightly shocked in his heart. Shi Jin and the four of them often walk outside, they have seen a lot, and they have long been accustomed to it.

Shi Jin said: "Dong Tou'er, let's ask them for an excuse." ”

They all bring dry food, but there is hot water in front of them, who wants to eat cold dry food?

Dong Ce nodded and said yes, but Wang Hun said with a grin: "Why bother so much, Dong Tou'er, look at me." ”

After that, he walked towards a bunch of homeless people with his arms dangled, and when he saw him dressed as a Ming soldier, those homeless people were afraid to get out of the way.

Shi Jin hugged his arms and scolded with a smile: "This rammer is going to rob others." ”

Everyone laughed and didn't take it seriously, but Dong Ce frowned slightly, but he also knew that this was the case these days, soldiers were not as good as bandits, and soldiers were more fearful than bandits. opened his mouth, but the words of restraint could not be said after all.

After all, the time for him to subdue these people is still relatively short, if he forcibly restrains them, it is easy to arouse disgust, and he must be guided slowly, but fortunately, these people are convinced of themselves, and there is nowhere to go without them.

The way to get along with others is also something that must be paid attention to.

When the crowd got out of the way and saw the scene inside clearly, Dong Ce's intuitive heart shrank heavily, as if he had punched someone hard, his whole heart twitched, his stomach turned upside down, and he almost vomited the overnight meal.

He finally knew what was cooking in the bowls of the homeless.

In the middle of the crowd, there was a corpse, the corpse of a human being. Perhaps it is a bit inappropriate to describe the word corpse - the limbs of the human corpse have been chopped off, and a large hole has been made in the chest, and the internal organs are exposed, which makes people feel cold when they look at it. Even his body was mutilated, and many places on it had been scraped to reveal white bones.

When Dong Ce looked over, he happened to see a homeless man throwing a rib with a little shredded meat in his hand into the pot.

Human ribs!

A few flies were buzzing around the corpse, trying to get a meal while people weren't looking, and a hungry and red-eyed homeless man stared at the flies - it was all meat!

A woman with a dirty face who couldn't see her age was kneeling and criing mournfully with the corpse's intact head, presumably his husband.

Dong Erlang only felt that his skin was full of small bumps, and he trembled unspeakably in his heart, they were actually eating people, this is eating people!

It turned out that the pot of these refugees was not boiling bark, grass, roots, leaves, but the limbs of this dismembered man! As for how this person died, is that serious? The important thing is that this flesh will soon enter the stomachs of others.

Dong Ce knows many cases of cannibalism, and even because he is familiar with history books, he knows far more about this kind of thing than everyone in this era.