Watching their men and children being taken away, the remaining elderly, children, and women who had difficulty surviving could not help but cry.

The cries were so sad that the Cheng family stopped when they entered the city. As soon as they stopped, the others who were following behind them crossed them and walked to the front.

After looking in the direction where the crying came from down the mountain for a long time, the clan leader wiped the sweat from his face.

"Don't even look at it and leave quickly. If someone catches up, we won't be able to escape."

"Chief, what are those soldiers here for?" A woman asked, with a blank look on her face, and she suddenly followed her tribe into the mountains.

The village chief sighed. There were many such unintelligent people in the clan. If he didn't mention something, they wouldn't be able to define this disaster. They couldn't clearly understand the feeling of being lucky enough not to be taken away. They would hesitate and doubt. Come and go doubt, come and go confused.

If the heart is unclear, the brain will not work well.

"They are here to recruit soldiers. Didn't you hear the people below crying so miserably, crying and calling for children and men?"

The woman was startled, then turned to look at her husband beside her. She was filled with joy and said, "Fortunately, we walked quickly."

"It's not that we walked fast, but that the clan leader and village chief reacted quickly. As soon as we saw the soldiers, they told us to go up the mountain quickly." After the man in charge of her family finished speaking, he turned to the clan leader and village chief with a grateful face, "Thanks to you You two, otherwise, it’s hard to say how many men in our clan will be left.”

The patriarch waved his hands, "It wasn't us who discovered it, it was Yuan Xi from the Dazhu family who discovered it. Thanks to them, we left earlier and at the front. Someone behind us saw the signs and followed us. , only then did we alert the soldiers, otherwise, those soldiers wouldn’t know that we were gone.”

The eyes of the Cheng family members focused on Cheng Dazhu and Cheng Yuanxi, their eyes filled with gratitude and joy.

"Keep going forward and find a place to rest; when this storm has passed, we will go down the mountain again." He must not dare to go down the mountain in the past two days, for fear that the soldiers will come back and catch him.

"Okay, listen to the clan leader and village chief."

The crowd continued to move forward, and there were only a few people walking in front of them. Looking at their camp, it was basically three or two families gathered together, and it could be seen that they were from the same village; the number of people was too small, and it was difficult for them to form a group. Not a threat.

In this way, Cheng found a relatively flat place to camp in a mountain nest.

As soon as she sat down, Mingyi slumped over her brother. Cheng Mingli gently gathered some dry leaves and said, "Get up and sit on the leaves."

"I don't want to move, I'm tired~" She lay on her brother's lap listlessly.

Cheng Mingli was only ten years old. Although he enjoyed being dependent on his sister, he didn't want to do everything for her. However, the road up the mountain was really difficult, and he couldn't rest at all during the rush. Let alone his sister, he almost couldn't bear it.

"Get up, girls can't sit on the ground." Cheng Mingli lifted her up like an adult, made her move back, and sat down on a dry leaf.

Mingyi lazily didn't want to move, so his brother pulled her into his arms.

The elders of the family saw it and smiled happily.

Chen Daya couldn't see that her daughter was tired, so she walked up and sat next to her, patted her shoulder hard, "Sit with a good posture, sit well, Mingli is also tired, don't overwhelm your brother."

"Mom, my son is fine, and my sister is not serious." Before Cheng Mingyi could say anything, Cheng Mingli started to stop her.

Chen Daya scolded them and said, "Yes, your sister is not important. It's my mother who feels sorry for you."

"mother!"

"Okay, why don't I stop talking!" Chen Daya patted her back again, this time much more gently, "Sit tight, girls should develop good manners from an early age and not act too casually. ." After saying that, Chen Daya went to Cheng Yuanxi.

Mingyi sighed deeply, Chen Daya did it for her daughter's good, and she had to pay close attention to her upbringing at all times; in ancient times, girls' manners were developed from childhood, not only from their appearance, but also from their hearts. , if you do it too much, it becomes a habit, an upbringing engraved in your bones.

Even though Chen Daya was born into a bad family, she still knew how to handle it; knowing that she was marrying Cheng Yuanxi of the Cheng family, she deliberately cultivated her own qualities and tried her best to be dignified even if there were no conditions.

However, Chen Daya was successful.

After getting married, everything she said and did was satisfactory; she behaved in a social manner, was filial to her parents-in-law, loved her husband very much, and taught her children lovingly.

If it were other women, they might not be aware of this; but Chen Daya realized it and started to change herself. After having a daughter, she put more effort into raising her, hoping that her daughter would become a person that people like. girl.

Chen Daya did everything right, Mingyi had to admire this girl.

Look at Cheng Mingyue, then look at Mingyi, the difference lies in the comparison.

They are still young, and when they grow up, the gap will become wider and wider.

"Sister, don't be upset. When you have rested enough, let's go to other places to see if there is anything to eat." Cheng Mingli comforted him. Cheng Mingli had always liked this sensible and lovely sister and was polite in everything, but would not dote on her. .

Mingyi shook his head, "The old forests in the deep mountains are bare, where can we get food? Don't meet the big cats, we are not big enough for the big cats to bite us."

"Don't be afraid, dad and grandpa are very powerful. When we were at home, dad and grandpa often went hunting in the mountains. Every time we came back, we would gain something. Let's ask dad to go with us."

Mingyi: You are really a filial son.

Cheng Yuanxi heard his son's words not far away and rolled his eyes at him, "Your father and I finally took a break, can't we just calm down?"

Cheng Mingli chuckled.

Mingyi looked up at her brother and smiled too.

Chen Daya said with a smile: "What Mingli said is true. My husband, let's go with them. If we can find some food, we can at least have one more bite. My parents are old, so it will be good for our health to eat more." ."

"Okay, for your mother's sake, I'll go take a look with you." Cheng Yuanxi stood up as he spoke. When he passed by his son, he picked up his daughter and said, "Get up and follow."

The seven-year-old girl felt light and airy in her hands, and the journey along the way was indeed hard on her; she didn't have enough to eat, and walking every day was tiring and consumed a lot, which made Mingyi, who was originally a little fat, really thin now.

Cheng Yuanxi couldn't help but feel distressed.

Cheng Mingli hurriedly got up and followed. The father and son walked to one side and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

The clan leader and village chief saw this and pretended not to see it. They walked to Cheng Dazhu and thanked him, "Dazhu, I would like to thank you and your family Yuan Xi again this time. If you hadn't discovered something was wrong early and told us in advance; now All the men in the clan will be expropriated."

There is no Tianbao big conscription, there are only three dings in every household.

In times of peace and prosperity, there were only a few soldiers, but in troubled times, all the soldiers who had reached their age had to go; the rest were either old people or careless children.

They were on the run, and without their men, they were basically two-legged beasts at the mercy of others.


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