Rescue system: run away from the host, calm down

Chapter 256 The Accidental City (Two in One)

"What the benefactor said is that we will try our best to repay you."

Du Sanniang looked sincere, she and her daughter were saved by the girl in front of her, and she will do her best to repay her benefactor for the rest of her life.

At this time, a group of women and children crowded over. They watched the whole show just now and knew the situation of Du Sanniang and Yuanyuan very well.

Talking about caring and laughing, trying to enlighten the mother and daughter, Du Sanniang felt very warm in her heart. She didn't expect this to be a group of warm and kind people.

When she drank the hot sweet potato porridge, there were crystal tears in her eyes. It had been a long time since she and her daughter had eaten hot food.

Yuanyuan finished a bowl of porridge in a few mouthfuls, and said happily to her mother: "Mother, this porridge is so delicious, sweet and glutinous, Yuanyuan has never tasted such delicious porridge before." .”

Seeing her daughter's satisfied and happy smile, Du Sanniang was heartbroken.

In the past, at home, all the good things were given to the elder brother and the third younger brother. Every time, their second wife was the one who was wronged. They ate the least coarse grains and corn buns, drank the cleanest porridge, and did the most and the heaviest work.

Thinking of this, Du Sanniang felt how ironic it was, because she was ashamed of not being able to give birth to a son, and she had always tolerated her mother-in-law's actions.

Today she realized that outsiders can treat them equally, but her own relatives have to be separated, which is extremely unfair in itself.

However, she was submissive and wronged her daughter all the time, and she regretted it even thinking about it.

Cheng Xiaoxiao ate [-]% full with pancakes.

Looking at the children laughing and laughing, I feel very happy.

This sweet potato porridge is specially for the children in the team. It uses a small pot and an extra small stove. Before she dealt with Du Sanniang, she didn't have dinner. Now she eats it with the children, and Du Sanniang is also added. and Yuanyuan.

The light gradually sank into the horizon, and the night was filled with snow and wind as promised.

The biting cold wind blew through the treetops, whistling and sweeping across the earth.

All kinds of tents were blown and rattled, and large fires were ignited in the entire campsite of more than 1000 meters.

Everyone surrounded the carts and mule carts to block the wind and snow outside as much as possible, and set up a raging fire, and they put wooden boards and hay between the fire and the carts to build a shed.

The people who tried their best to keep warm, racked their brains, built strange-shaped sheds everywhere, brainstorming one by one, full of energy, there is no way, if they are not careful, they may freeze to death in this snowy night.

A dozen men with malicious intentions originally wanted to steal things from Cheng Xiaoxiao's team at night, but they never thought about waiting all night, and fell asleep by themselves. Working for an hour, everyone was in good spirits, and they didn't even doze off, which caused them to freeze outside all night in vain, almost freezing into ice sculptures, and they didn't find a chance to start.

The system sneered, just those few crooked melons and cracked dates, also want to rob?
Cheng Xiaoxiao sighed, "It's a pity, I didn't freeze to death, and I'm quite resistant to the cold."

As long as those people dare to do something, they will never come back. What a good opportunity to deter people, this is wasted in vain.

When the sky was slightly bright, the middle-aged man who talked with Cheng Yong yesterday couldn't wait to come to them first.

That night, the system eavesdropped on a lot of news that this middle-aged man was originally the head of the county government.

He is now in charge of people who escaped from several villages and counties, a total of 277 people. Of course, there must be more than these people in a county.

It's just that the town was ransacked by King Yu's cavalry, causing numerous deaths and injuries. The county magistrate and county magistrate were beheaded on the spot, and the powerful fled first. Most of the surviving people were unwilling to leave their homes and stay in the mountains. hid.

After the news passed, or after King Yu's army withdrew, they would go down the mountain and return to the village to continue discussing life.

But some people thought that King Yu would not let it go, and would not be able to go home for a while, hiding in the mountains, and one day the food would run out, so it was better to find another way out.

So they escaped, and the leader who had this idea was Lin Yiqiu, the director. He left his hometown with a group of people and embarked on a bumpy and unknown journey.

Some people were lost on the way, and those who can come here are in good health or extremely cold-resistant.

Of course, most of the old people in the village stayed behind and were not in the team. There were very few people as old as yesterday's old man.

There is also a contingent of more than 200 civilians here, and villagers from several villages who survived the catastrophe went on the road together.

The other more than 100 people belonged to one family. Cheng Xiaoxiao thought they were all ordinary people, but unexpectedly there was a third-rate family interspersed in the middle.

The other two groups of people are more mixed, they are temporarily formed teams, including merchants in Fucheng, workers at the docks, ordinary people, and people from all walks of life.

Therefore, there are five large and small groups here, with different styles of acting.

Cheng Xiaoxiao felt that Master Lin was a good character, so he asked Father Cheng to remind him to stockpile more food.

This time, Cheng Xiaoxiao did not go to the city to purchase, and everything was handed over to several captains.Although she was worried, she couldn't always do everything by herself.

Sometimes, proper decentralization will allow them to grow. Success is never achieved overnight, and a lot of experience and lessons need to be accumulated.

In one morning, everyone ran back and forth many times. Although the supplies in the city were very expensive, they spared no effort and almost emptied half of their family property.

Of course, this is a family property on the surface, and the materials collected by Cheng Xiaoxiao are divided into two parts.

Part of it is her private property, and part of it is the property on the team's books.

After lunch, when everyone wanted to enter the city, the city gate was locked and no one was allowed to enter or exit.

Others didn't know the reason, but Cheng Xiaoxiao knew very clearly that it was because the news about Yuanyuan's infectious disease had reached the ears of Fucheng Ling, and he was afraid that people outside would bring infectious diseases to the people in the city, so he simply closed the city gate.

Originally, Cheng Xiaoxiao planned to take a day off and set off early the next morning.

It's a pity... Now the plan has to be advanced, so let's close it, they pack up their things and leave immediately.

Out of morality and appreciation, Cheng Xiaoxiao kindly told that Master Lin.

When Master Lin knew that Cheng Beiniu's team was actually dominated by a girl, he was very surprised and puzzled. She is a woman in her 50s and [-]s who grew up through various hardships.

They were either raised by their families since they were young, and they have been exposed to intrigues and tricks all the year round in the business and official circles, and all sides are scheming.

Or the children of the world who have experienced the bloody battles and practiced martial arts, have a courageous personality, and are mighty and domineering.

It doesn't match up with the slim and thin girl in the distance.

Did he hear it wrong, or did he open his eyes in the wrong way?
It happened that such a girl coincided with his ideas.

He followed behind with a team, full of doubts and nowhere to vent, only time will tell.

Immediately afterwards, people from the third-rate family also followed, including the group of more than 200 people who also set off.

Everyone is not stupid, they don’t open the gates of the city, they are still waiting outside, there is no house to shelter from the wind and rain, no place to buy food for food and clothing, there is only a dead end under such a heavy snowstorm.

Now there are ten more people in the team, yes, it was Lu Jingtian who found his family.

Coincidentally, it turned out that Lu Jingtian was the son of Boss Lu of Laifu Commercial Bank. They were all acquaintances at this meeting, and the atmosphere became much more harmonious in an instant, and there was a sense of seeing fellow villagers seeing fellow villagers.

Cheng Xiaoxiao did not invite Boss Lu's family to join her team.

As natives of Dingzhou, how could they allow them to bow down to a group of ordinary people with their innate sense of superiority in their bones.

They have enough food, and they want to bring a lot of money, so they will be able to last for a long time. Since they have no worries about food and clothing, they don't need to join any team.

At first, Cheng Xiaoxiao took out the hemostatic medicine in the name of a businessman, which was enough for Boss Lu to give them a high look, but it was only a look. After getting along for a long time, he naturally knew that they were mud-legged.

Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't care either, she also needed to examine the character of a few people, the more difficult life was as she went forward, Lu Jingtian's family would always ask her, and whether or not they would take them with them depended on her mood.

Because there was one thing that bothered her.

Lu Jingtian's younger sister actually knows Ke Mengyao, she is also very dog-legged, so don't be too obvious about her flattery, she almost treats Ke Mengyao as an idol.

I have a gentle and skillful future sister-in-law. She doesn't want to curry favor with her, but she wants to curry favor with that unruly and capricious Miss Ke, who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong. It's not good to think about it, and she doesn't even like Lu Jingtian's family so much.

Presumably, the little girl was also spoiled by Boss Lu and his wife, and there were some disturbances in the team.

Although Boss Lu and his wife were very grateful to Cheng Xiaoxiao who saved their son's life, and sent a lot of good things, even so, Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't have much affection.

After they came, Miss Ke's treatment skyrocketed. For things that she couldn't get here, she ran to Boss Lu to complain.

The desolate look of a wronged little daughter-in-law going back to her natal home to sue her parents, Cheng Xiaoxiao has the urge to beat someone up.

There are no idlers in her team, so Ke Mengyao's life is not easy these days.

Here, Ke Mengyao is really wronged. In the past, she opened her mouth when she was eating, stretched out her hands when she was wearing clothes, and did nothing. However, no one in this broken team cared about her as a pregnant woman. She had to start with washing dishes and lighting fires every day.

She must learn all life skills, otherwise she will not be able to stay in the team. Poorly, she has frostbite on her hands and cannot rest. She cannot lose her temper. Every time she loses her temper, she will be demerited once, and she will be demerited once for destroying public property. This time she will have to go hungry.

Thinking about the dizzy and hungry experience of the previous two days, grievance, resentment, unwillingness, but helplessness, she had to bow her head and restrain her temper.

But the dissatisfaction in my heart gradually deepened.It's all the fault of that damn girl who ordered her to be treated so harshly, so that one day she will make her look good.

Since Uncle Lu's arrival, her life has become much better. Sister Lu's flattery to her made her gradually regain the feeling she used to have when she was a young lady.

Ke Mengyao, with a swollen heart, gradually disregarded the rules and regulations in the team, and showed her presence in front of Mother Lu whenever she had nothing to do.

Cheng Xiao and Xiaoben didn't take her seriously either, but she had to speak clearly about this obvious provocation.

If Boss Lu accepts Ke Mengyao, then her team will not care about her food, drink and life in the future.

When Cheng Xiaoxiao put these words on the surface, Boss Lu hesitated. Miss Ke is notorious for being arrogant and arrogant. If he really accepts it, I'm afraid life will be difficult in the future.

But her daughter repeatedly begged to help her, and because of Ke Jieshi's reasons, she had no choice but to help.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and agreed, but sternly warned his wife and daughter not to favor Ke Mengyao too much. Now that everyone is free, no one is anyone's servant, and they can't put the cart before the horse.

The whole team moved slowly, Cheng Xiaoxiao organized the snow shoveling by hand, and reached a consensus with the team leaders behind.

Each team is responsible for clearing the snow for one day, and they go back and forth in turn. Otherwise, she will clear the way in front and they will pick up ready-made snow in the back. She is not being taken advantage of.

After half a month of trekking, they finally arrived at the outskirts of Yuanyang City. They passed by villages on the way. Many livestock and people were frozen to death.

Those who survived closed the doors and windows tightly, nestled in the house, and dared not go out at all.

With a group of people clearing the way, the line behind them became longer and longer. Those who caught up with them, as soon as they found out that Liao City would not open the city gate, they consciously followed behind the line.

There were also many soldiers who escaped from Dingzhou, Fang Zheng and Lu Jingtian gradually gathered a lot of people, Cheng Xiaoxiao's eyes became hot when they saw it.

The moment he stepped out of the woods, he could see puffs of green smoke rising from the city from a distance, and there was a lot of noise in the city, and the sound of weapons clashing and fighting could be heard from time to time.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, how could there be war in the city in this cold winter season?

Could it be that the bandits on the mountain came to loot the city?

At this moment, everyone dare not rush into the city.

Each team sent a few people to inquire about the news, and Cheng Xiaoxiao had the plug-in of the system, and quickly figured out the general story of the matter.

The sheriff of Yuanyang City was assassinated a month ago, and the new imperial order was not issued so quickly.

Under the hands of the city lord, there are two big officials, both of whom are ambitious and want to hold Yuanyang City in their hands.

One colluded with the bandits and looted Yuanyang City, and the other robbed all the food stores in the city, leaving the common people with no food to buy.

The people in the city rose up and became a rebel army fighting for survival.

The two waves of forces vying for the city lord's position were fiercely fought, and the people's uprising army snatched benefits in the cracks, and even the idle sons of the aristocratic families wanted a piece of the action.

In the past month, Yuanyang City has been in the flames of war. In order to grab food and land, everyone inside has been killed like crazy.

Now it is a situation where there are almost losers. In a big city of 3 to [-] people, there are only a handful of more than [-] people left, divided into several forces.

There are people from merchant families and official families who escaped from Dingzhou interspersed in the middle. After those with relatives directly defected to relatives, they also joined a certain force with relatives. Families with no relatives and profound backgrounds united together to form a new power.

In short, it cannot be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, it is simply a reduced version of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Cheng Xiaoxiao, who understood the situation, had a headache, but at this time the system issued a mission to save the people in the city.

(End of this chapter)