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Chapter 73 I'm Not That Thank You
The gang leader put away his contempt for her, looked her up and down with embarrassment on his face, and said:
"It's okay to follow us, do you know how pitiful it is to see you running around like a doll?" Immediately afterwards, he turned his head and shouted at the veteran in the distance:

"Old Fang, you take this doll with you!"

"Hey...here we come..." The old soldier pouted his beard on his chin and hurried over.

Xie Yuan's eyes couldn't help but stare at the two misfit white hairs in his beard, and he couldn't move his eyes away.

Then the beard was covered by wrinkled hands.

Lao Fang covered his beard with his hands, and said to Xie Yuan, "Baby, let me go."

Xie Yuan looked at the gang leader who was no longer going to talk to her, and followed.

Lao Fang took her directly to the burial site, handed her a rattan shield, and said, "Push the soil in and bury it. After the burial, you can eat today."

Xie Yuan looked at the messy corpses in the pit, and when he heard eating again, his stomach was overwhelmed... Her face, which was flushed from exertion just now, turned pale in a flash. She held back, lowered her eyes and just looked at The soil in front of him began to concentrate on pushing it in.

The yellow soil fell into it with a clatter, and the corpses that had been stripped of their equipment, both Hu and Han, were randomly piled together.They were enemies in life, but they were all buried in the same pit after death.

Lao Fang looked at her while slowly shoveling the soil with a shovel, and asked, "My baby, what's your name?"

"My name is Xie Yuan, Uncle..." Xie Yuan raised his arm to cover his mouth and nose, resisting the urge to vomit, and said.

"Xie is a common surname, and there are people surnamed Wang, and people surnamed Cui...that's all amazing. Your ancestors have been officials for generations, but it doesn't look like you are good at wielding knives."

Is it true that my father likes Shen Liuzhen the most, and I hope that he can restore the glory of the Xie family in the future. She just has a surname, but it is actually dispensable.

Xie Yuan was full of resentment in his heart, and if it was known that the Xie family had only one girl and no son, her way to join the army would be blocked, so he said directly:
"Uncle, I have nothing to do with that family. I'm not that Xie. I'm the one who untied the word 'Xie', pronounced 'Xie'."

"Oh oh oh..." Lao Fang faltered twice with erratic eyes, and a young man next to him who had just carried the corpse with him laughed when he saw him like this, and said:
"...Hahaha, he is illiterate and doesn't understand."

"You are the only one who can read, you are amazing!" Lao Fang threw a shovelful of soil to him angrily, then gave him a hard look, and muttered:
"You silly bastard who doesn't wink, Bai Chang is so big!"

"Hahahaha..." The young man smirked, and kept shoveling down the soil with his hands.

Seeing that they were fighting so easily, Xie Yuan tried to force a smile, but he didn't.

She didn't know why it was as simple as tidying up the vegetable garden when they were collecting corpses on this bloody battlefield.

Wouldn't you be sad because of the death of your comrade?At least seeing so many dead people, there should be something hurting them, and the mood shouldn't be so good.

Anyway, she couldn't laugh, and she still wanted to vomit... Xie Yuan kept thinking in his heart, if this continues, one day she will starve to death due to nausea.

"Why not bury them separately? The enemy and his own people are buried together. How can we worship later?" Xie Yuan said, holding back tears in his eyes.

"Hey... It's good to have a pit, and worship? Later, the family will offer a small card, and it will be good to burn some paper on New Year's Day and festivals. Some people's relatives have died, and even There isn't a single one offering incense." As Lao Fang said, he raised his eyes to Xie Yuan and asked, "Does your family know you came out to join the army?"

"I sneaked out." Xie Yuan said.

Lao Fang leaned on a shovel and complained to her: "Then you are so brave, you are full of soldiers and bandits everywhere, you can come here from Linjiang City by yourself, and you didn't die on the way, your parents are now It’s time to burn incense at home!”

He looked at her clothes, "...you don't look like you can't afford to eat, and you even ran out to die. I've never seen you so stupid!"

Xie Yuan frowned and didn't speak.

It is difficult outside, every step is difficult, even occasionally she misses the comfortable days at home.

But she knew that if she was allowed to stay at home, she would definitely be suffering in pain and would not be able to stay.

After finally burying it, after going to the river to wash it, the fire was lit and the pot was set up, and it was already dark.

Xie Yuan sat with the group of fifteen people around the campfire.The trousers and shoes were soaked in a lot of mud, and she was asked to wash them in the river. Now they are wet and stick to her body, and her stomach hurts...

So he kept covering his stomach with his hands, lying on his knees and watching the swaying flames without saying a word.

Lao Fang saw that although the child looked pampered, she worked surprisingly hard, spoke little, and was very polite, so he had a good impression of her, so he casually broke a piece of dry biscuit into two pieces. half, handed her half, and said:
"Eat, I must be hungry after working just now."

Xie Yuan took it with a pale face, hesitated for a while in his hand, broke off a little and put it in his mouth.Just as Lao Fang was about to say why she was so pretentious when she ate, Xie Yuan ran aside and vomited... The "wow" vomit on the ground was the acid water in the stomach...

Lao Fang looked at her coldly, took a bite of half of the cake in his hand, and chewed hard with his upper and lower teeth, feeling as if he was kindly feeding the dog.

Xie Yuan came back with the pancake in his hand, his face was pale, and he sat by the fire again, watching the flames in silence.

Lao Fang sneered and said, "What? I'm used to fine clothes and fine food, my old man's cake dirty your mouth?"

When Xie Yuan heard this, he woke up from the pessimism that he was about to die, and quickly looked at him and said sincerely:
"No, no... I am... I saw someone eating dead people on the road, and every time I ate something, I could think of the arm on the fire."

Xie Yuan wanted to vomit again.

All the people around the fire were silent, including the leader who was holding a bowl and drinking hot water, and looked at her silently, unable to drink any more.

The loathing and hatred in Lao Fang's eyes gradually disappeared, and he said with emotion:

"Little babies are still rarely seen... When I was young, it was even more chaotic then than it is now! Now at least the north and the south are part of each other, and at any rate it is safe under their own rule. In the past, it was a fight between barbarians and barbarians. , Han people are also fighting with Han people, not to mention the war between the Hu and Han races, there is no place in the world where you can live in peace...

There are wars everywhere, and people can't farm land, so there must be famine everywhere.At that time, there was an army of barbarians who had no food and grass, so they tied all the Han women to a rope and led them away at the back of the team. They slept at night and killed them for cooking during the day.As soon as the team pulled out of the camp, the ground was covered with gnawed bones of dead people. "

(End of this chapter)