Shu Blossoms

Chapter 510 Ding He's Resentment

"My father used to be a carpenter and helped the neighbors in the workshop to do some woodwork. Four years ago, the Han family conscripted, but my brother and I were young at that time. If my father was drafted into the army, we would not be able to survive at all, so my father I went to the government to serve corvee, and my father came back very late in those days. One day they took my father and the others out of the city to work. It rained heavily that day, and when they came back, they were unlucky to encounter a rock rolling down the mountain. Although they picked up a I lost my life, but my legs and waist were broken, and I can’t stand up anymore. My brother begged all the doctors in the city, and spent all the money in the family to no avail.”

Ding He turned his back to Ma Xingyun. Although Ma Xingyun couldn't see the expression on his face, he could tell how painful he was by looking at his desolate and thin back and his drooping head.

Ding He took a deep breath and continued: "Later, there was no rice for the pot at home. My brother asked me to stay at home to take care of my father while he went out to buy rice. In fact, the family had no money at that time, and the compensation from the government was spent. It’s almost the same, and the remaining few copper coins can’t buy much rice. I shouldn’t have let him go, if he didn’t go, although we would starve, at least our family is still there.”

"What happened to your brother?"

Ding He couldn't restrain his body trembling. Ma Xingyun couldn't bear it, and didn't know how to comfort him.

Yao Qier gave him a disapproving look, Ma Xingyun covered his face, wishing he could bury himself in the ground.

"He went to buy rice, but he didn't have enough money, so the owner of the rice shop naturally refused to sell it to him. Later, I don't know what my brother thought, he threw down a few copper coins, picked up a bag of rice next to him, and ran out. General Han ruled In Jiujiang City, if you are caught stealing, whoring, whoring and gambling, you will be dealt with according to military regulations. They took my brother back and beat him with [-] army sticks. When I saw my brother, he was left with only one breath Yes. I ran to the government office and begged, although they also invited a doctor to see my brother, but it was useless. After a few days, my brother's fever persisted, so he left! My father couldn't bear the blow and followed him !"

Ma Xingyun couldn't sit still, picked up the food on the ground, and walked behind Ding He, trying to make him not feel too sad, but before he could open his mouth, Ding He suddenly looked up at him, his eyes widened. It was like a copper bell, covered with bloodshot eyes, and said word by word: "They buried my father and brother outside the city, and they want me to go to the charity hall set up by Han's family, and tell me that there can be food and shelter for me. If I'm upright, I can still join the army! But I don't want to go, and I don't want to stay in that house, so I ran out."

"Now I have no father, no brother, and no home, so I can only live on the streets!" The expression on Ding He's face was full of resentment. Mi was beaten to death, and even more hated the Han family, the rulers of Jiujiang City, because the Han family ruined their family and made them homeless.

Ma Xingyun saw this kind of hatred clearly, for a long time, he could only say weakly, "I'm sorry!"

Although he has only been in Jiujiang City for a few days, Ma Xingyun has already deeply felt the strictness of Jiujiang City. He has long heard that General Han is very strict in his army and has strict military discipline, so the army on the battlefield can be invincible.

But now he uses the method of governing the army to govern the city, and now he feels that the people are too difficult. He doesn't know how to describe this feeling, but he feels too depressing.

Both Xiao Yucheng and Zheng Heng shared Ma Xingyun's feeling. They deeply felt that the military regulations had overcorrected Jiujiang City.

However, this strict rule is really useful for defending the city during wartime. The two of them were forced by the patrol battalion after the curfew to have nowhere to hide.

After Zheng Heng left a secret note, he thought that it would not be easy to find Ma Xingyun now that he was running outside for a while, so why not find out where Mr. Yin was locked up first, and after a whole day of searching, he finally got a little clue, thinking about it at night Can you find an opportunity to visit at night, and discuss the rescue method after reuniting with Xiao Yucheng.

But when it got dark, he had nowhere to hide. No matter which street there was a patrol team from the patrol battalion, and there were even more watchmen in the alleys.

As long as he moved, he would be spotted by the patrol before he walked out of the alley, but if he didn't move, it would only take a while for him to be caught.

Xiao Yucheng didn't go anywhere. Based on his knowledge of Han Daoyuan's army, he could probably guess the time when the city defense battalion in the city would change defenses, and his guess was not wrong. After waiting outside the city for a whole day, he finally found an opportunity to take the opportunity to enter. In the city, he originally wanted to join Zheng Heng before it was completely dark, but he didn't expect that he was surrounded before he walked out of the main street after entering the city easily.

For a moment, Xiao Yucheng thought that Zheng Heng had been exposed, and the people in Jiujiang City had set up a net to wait for him to throw himself into the net.

But in the next moment, he knew that he was worrying too much, and those people asked him seriously, "The curfew is a quarter of an hour away, why don't you go home, do you want to spend a night in the prison of the government office?"

Xiao Yucheng, who was planning to break out of the siege, abruptly put back the hand that was about to be raised, pretending to be cautious, "Don't, don't catch me, go home immediately!"

As he said that, he hunched over and began to trot cautiously, and when he was about to pass by the people from the city defense battalion, he yelled again, "Stop!"

Xiao Yucheng trembled from 'fright', and stood there tremblingly. The people from the city defense battalion walked towards this side step by step, and asked in a deep voice: "Which workshop do you live in, and what did you go to do?" ? Why haven't you returned home yet?"

Xiao Yucheng desperately recalled the map of Jiujiang City given to him by Emperor Zhou before he came here. The map was so detailed that it was as small as an alley, a square, or even a few shops on a street in Jiujiang City. Restaurants and restaurants, the names of restaurants and restaurants are all clear.

"The little one from Qingkangfang, my father is suffering from pain from an old illness in the past few days. I asked the little one to go out to buy wine. He can only sleep after drinking." He remembered that the nearest main street to the city is Qingkangfang, and there is a restaurant in the south of the street that should be called Guanju, so I made it up casually.

The guards from the city defense battalion seemed to believe it, turned around and walked a few steps without saying anything, then turned around and asked casually, "How about the new fruit wine, boss, today?"

Xiao Yucheng was startled, and then replied after a moment of stupefaction: "Is the boss serving fruit wine today? I can't afford fruit wine, so I don't care."

Xiao Yucheng managed to fool him, and the city defense battalion let him go without noticing any flaws for a while.

I thought it would be enough to just fool around, but unexpectedly when I walked to the next street, I met another patrol team. He looked around and saw that there was no place to hide in the street. In desperation, he could only jump on the roof. Walking cautiously on the roof, but not far away, I heard a stern shout from below, "Who, stop!"

Xiao Yucheng looked down, and saw an unobvious figure speeding through the alley, chasing after a long procession of torches.

(End of this chapter)