Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 201 What should be omitted is not just kindness and compassion
"What?" Chang Xin's scalp went numb after hearing this: "In such a world of ice and snow?"

"Yes." The guard nodded.

Chang Xin squeezed forward, and someone in the crowd soon recognized him, with reverence and fear intertwined.

The woman who made painful sounds during the birth process was so frightened that she choked her voice.

The Holy Snow Master looked at the woman lying on the newly spread withered grass, and the eye-catching color of blood shocked her heart.

Before she could make any move, Li Huan had already taken off his bearskin coat. As soon as he started doing this, the guards around him began to take off their fur coats.

There was a commotion in the crowd, but everyone watched the Marquis do this with reddish eyes.

Master Shengxue personally stepped forward to deliver the baby to the poor woman. The crowds on the left and right automatically built a human wall to block the raging cold wind.

The time did not last long, but in less than a quarter of an hour, a sharp cry came out from the center of the silent crowd. The Holy Snow Master used his white fox fur clothes to wrap a man who had just cut off the umbilical cord with the long knife in the guard's hand. The skinny baby was gently placed next to the sweating woman.

The woman was breathing heavily, and before she could say any words of thanks, she wanted to stand up and hold this hard-won child in her arms.

"Take it back to the city." Li Huan frowned, and the guards immediately drove the four-wheeled carriage forward.

This was a vehicle transporting hot water to the road. The boiler, which was still steaming on top, was directly lifted off by the guards and thrown aside. The stove was too hot and was also thrown away. The guards were so enthusiastic that they put the leather coats on Paved in the carriage, Xiong Da was very strong. He hugged the woman directly and got into the carriage. He didn't mind the disgusting dirt like the blood all over her body and the amniotic fluid and feces on her lower body.

As the carriage drove away, Li Huan's heart could not calm down, because when he made the rules, he had never considered so much, let alone thought that there would be a pregnant woman who continued to work to this point!

He squatted by the stove, and the people nearby also subconsciously gathered around. They all saw what the Marquis did. They had never seen what kind of high official would put the life and death of a pariah like them. on heart.

Something called reputation appears quietly; this thing is invisible and intangible, but it really exists.

"Where is this woman's man?" Li Huan glanced at the crowd.

In the dark crowd, you looked at me and I looked at you. After about ten breaths, a woman with a face covered in mud and black hair, with greasy and disgusting hair, and you could even see mud mixed in with it, squeezed forward. There was no fear in Li Huan's eyes, just gratitude.

This is actually a woman with a big belly...

Li Huanan said that he was really good at committing crimes.

"Master Hou, her man is dead!"

Dead ball?
Li Huan was stunned for a moment and asked: "How come the ball is dead?"

"When we were coming all the way to Anyang County, her man would hunt and let the tiger take him away!" The fat-bellied woman said, with tears in her eyes, "That was my cousin of the same clan, and my man chased him. At that time, he fell into the glacier and disappeared without making a sound."

Li Huan rubbed his hands and looked at the hot burning fire: "How many pregnant women are there here?"

There was a commotion in the crowd, and immediately seven or eight more women who were already pregnant came out timidly. "Let the carriage come and take everyone back to the city, and pass on the order. All pregnant women will not have to work and will receive food rations."

"Here!"

The guards followed the order and left. A group of Kuhaha watched with bewildered eyes as the Marquis walked through the avenue with his hands behind his back.

Someone soon brought a brand new fur coat, but Li Huan, who had walked a short distance, no longer felt cold. Instead, he felt like a hot flame was burning in his chest.

Ahead is the valley where the reservoir is built. The diversion canal has been excavated in good shape, but inside the valley, the depth is still being excavated.

People are constantly using animals to transport soil. In addition, there are others who carry the soil on their backs, push the soil with wheelbarrows, and pull the soil with four-wheelers...

Looking around, there is no one idle on the entire construction site, but there is not a single person wearing single clothes or bare feet.

The distinguished county magistrate, like these mud-legged people, is working hard. After meeting Li Huan, he joined in the work again, and seemed to work even harder, as if he had been injected with blood.

Li Huan squatted beside the work shed and looked at it for a long time, and found that there were many women here. In this era, there was no bad custom of foot binding, and women almost had the same work as men.

Even some weaker men are not as strong as some women with thick arms and legs and round waists.

The huge construction site was beginning to take shape. Li Huan looked at it for almost an hour before getting ready to leave.

"Doing this seems so disrespectful of people, but many of them still have smiles on their faces when they are working." Master Shengxue is not sure why her husband's mood seems to be so bad all of a sudden. Hit rock bottom.

Even she herself felt that there was no problem in doing so; because there was nothing better than taking care of food and housing.

Li Huan smiled: "I didn't say I was unhappy. Although I know very well what kind of life these low-level people live, but after witnessing it with my own eyes, it is too miserable..."

Master Shengxue said: "I think it is much better than us Huns."

"Better than the Xiongnu?" Li Huan was slightly surprised, then smiled and said: "Have you also learned to say the word concubine?"

The Holy Snow Master nodded and said: "There have always been female officials teaching us what to do, and we learned it inadvertently. The Huns may seem barbaric, but in fact they are not really barbaric. In the winter on the grassland, sometimes when the When you set up your tent, you will find that the grass on the entire grassland is covered with a layer of shining ice, making it impossible for the animals to eat. At this time, we can only go south to rob the Han people of rations for the winter."

"Does it make sense to commit robbery?" Li Huan smiled, feeling a little better.

Master Shengxue shook his head and said: "When everyone can survive, who would want to rob? Not all households are warlike. There are also some single households who will always find various excuses as long as the people under their accounts can survive. To shirk Shanyu from dispatching troops."

"This kind of people is always a minority. If they were in the majority, the war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu would not have lasted for so long." Li Huan sighed: "It's just that whether it is in the Huns or in my big man, starving Those who suffer from the cold and cannot get enough to eat will always be the people at the bottom, and those who lost their lives on the battlefield are still those people who can’t get enough to eat and want to go to the army to get enough to eat.”

Master Shengxue looked at Li Huan in surprise, wanting to remind him that these were disobedient words.

(End of this chapter)